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Wednesday, 12/17/2014 5:28:26 PM

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:28:26 PM

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Here are the final numbers for the ebola spending in the 2015 budget


$112 million will be appropriated to DoD for Ebola response and preparedness. Of this, $45 million will go to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s long-range research programs; $50 million to nearer-term research programs of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency; and $17 million for procurement of equipment.
$25 million will be appropriated for Ebola response and preparedness at FDA, including “increased medical countermeasure activities.”
$2.742 billion will be appropriated to HHS to respond to the Ebola epidemic in the United States and other countries threatened by the virus. Funding will be used to: (1) develop vaccines and treatments; (2) train health care workers; (3) bolster quarantine stations at ports of entry; (3) create isolation units; (4) reimburse hospitals providing care; and (5) send CDC personnel to countries affected by Ebola.
$238 million will be appropriated to the NIH for Ebola-related research.
$2.5 billion will be appropriated to DOS “to respond to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and to strengthen public health capacity in other countries threatened by the virus.”
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