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Clinton Aides Traveling To Puerto Rico For Zika Meetings
Clinton Aides Traveling To Puerto Rico For Zika Meetingshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-aides-zika_us_57179ef0e4b06f35cb7157ec?utm_hp_ref=politics
Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is dispatching two top aides to Puerto Rico this weekend for a fact-finding trip to learn more about the Zika virus, her campaign said on Tuesday.
Clinton aides Amanda Renteria and Ann O’Leary will meet with officials on the island territory, which has become a breeding ground for the virus in the United States.
In Puerto Rico, there are some 400 confirmed cases of Zika, which is spread by mosquitoes and through sexual contact, and public health experts predict that eventually as many as 80 percent of the island’s 3.5 million residents could become infected.
Clinton said in a statement provided by her campaign to Reuters that more must be done to combat the spread of Zika in Puerto Rico, which has an abundant mosquito population and also a decades-long recession that has made curbing that population difficult.
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