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6/10/2016
![This photograph depicts a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species of mosquito primarily responsible for the spread of the Zika virus disease to people.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/WRAIR%20ZIKA.ashx?mw=120)
As mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus spread illness to people across the Americas and beyond, scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are moving quickly
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Zika Virus, Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
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2/4/2016
![President Barack Obama convenes a meeting on the Zika virus in the Situation Room of the White House, Jan. 26, 2016.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/ZIKA.ashx?mw=120)
DoD experts with experience working with the Zika virus will support the HHS in its efforts related to the mosquito-borne disease
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Zika Virus
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5/14/2015
![A pharmacy technician counts pills to fill a prescription at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., May 22, 2012. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alystria Maurer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Deceptive%20Pharmacy%20Practices.ashx?mw=120)
In the face of recent aggressive and deceptive marketing practices of some compounding pharmacies targeting TRICARE, the Defense Health Agency is taking aggressive action to help TRICARE beneficiaries, DHA’s chief of pharmacy operations said in a recent interview.
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TRICARE Pharmacy Program, Compound Drugs
Article
12/22/2014
![Aaron Momolu, left, and Lawrence Fakoli, Liberian laboratory technicians at National Public Health Reference Laboratory, put on personal protective equipment before entering a containment area to test samples. U.S. Army photo by Dr. Randal J. Schoepp:](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DoD%20Scientists%20Work%20Globally%20to%20Improve%20Disease%20Diagnostics.ashx?mw=120)
At the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases here, scientists who develop and refine diagnostics do more than work in a laboratory. Some take their disease-identifying tools into the field and try them out on a virus’s home turf.
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Article
12/12/2014
![Since 2003, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency has invested more than $300 million to develop medical countermeasures against hemorrhagic fever viruses, and those efforts are paying off today in potential new ways to fight Ebola virus disease. National Institutes of Health photo](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DTRA%20Medical%20Countermeasures%20Help%20West%20African%20Ebola%20Crisis.ashx?mw=120)
Since 2003, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency has invested more than $300 million to develop medical countermeasures against hemorrhagic fever viruses, and those efforts are paying off today in potential new ways to fight Ebola virus disease.
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Pandemic Diseases, Ebola
Article
12/8/2014
![microscopic view of the ebola virus](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161207133507im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Ebola%20Virus%20Pic.ashx?mw=120)
The Defense Department agency whose mission is to reduce biological, chemical and other threats to troops worldwide began ramping up its response early in the Ebola outbreak and now, with many partners, is steadily building capabilities in Liberia as it extends capacity into Sierra Leone and Mali.
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Pandemic Diseases, Ebola, Health Readiness
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