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House of Representatives and the Senate each passed bills this week authorizing emergency spending to combat the Zika virus. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 10:02 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The bill, which was passed by the full Senate on March 18, 2016, is now cleared for the President’s signature. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 11:38 am by Debra A. McCurdy
S. 2512 – to add the Zika virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program that encourages treatments for tropical diseases. [read post]
  The Senate bill addressing the Zika virus aims to fuel the development of countermeasures to address the Zika virus outbreak by providing for expedited US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of drugs targeting the Zika virus. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 9:55 pm by RegBlog
’s draft environmental assessment of its proposed field trial, which would test the mosquito that carries Zika, dengue, and other diseases when genetically engineered to prevent the mosquitos’ offspring from living until they reproduce, in an effort to reduce the number of the disease-carrying mosquitos. [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 8:17 pm
UN Human Rights Chief ZeidThe 31st regular session of the Human Rights Council is taking place now in Geneva (29 February to 24 March 2016). [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 10:30 pm by RegBlog
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidance that suggests that the symptoms and risks of Zika virus, a virus contracted through a mosquito bite that can pass to a fetus from a pregnant woman with the virus, are included in blood donation materials; clinics only accept blood donations from individuals who may have the virus after four weeks from the time of possible exposure; and only blood donations from places without the virus are used where there is currently “active… [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 3:40 pm by Zosha Millman
Zika Virus: Appropriate Workplace Responses – Mintz Levin’s Natalie Young writing out of Boston on the firm’s Employment Matters blog By jointly tackling Facebook, French regulators set an example to large international digital media companies – First prominent enforcement measure after the Safe Harbor invalidation – Paris attorneys Daniel Kadar and Caroline Gouraud of Reed Smith writing on their Technology Law Dispatch Don’t Cry Over… [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 5:00 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
Christie is asked about Zika virus and his actions to quarantine a nurse during the Ebola crisis. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 2:02 pm by Alex R. McQuade, Cody M. Poplin
The Hill reports that a number of GOP Senators are threatening to cut foreign aid to Ghana in the 2017 State Department funding bill if Ghana is unable to monitor and hold the two GTMO detainees that they recently accepted from the United States. [read post]