12/10/2019
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"We want our states and our communities to be well prepared and we want to better understand the impacts of the virus."
"Because in the Western Hemisphere, as Dr. Hotez says, we are so interconnected, Florida to Brazil, and Latin America and Colombia, and Puerto Rico, to Mexico, to Haiti."
"The Zika outbreak began in Brazil nearly a year ago, and it's rapidly spread across the Americas."
"I'm also especially concerned with the American citizens in Puerto Rico because we now have 117 confirmed cases."