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Trump's NIH Just Expanded the Study of Certain Viruses, But Did They Put Humanity at Risk?

Andie Vaught, 25, grasps a stress toy in the shape of a truck as she prepares to have her blood drawn by phlebotomist Catina Boyd as part of a clinical trial for a Zika vaccine at the National Institute of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, November 21, 2016. (Allison Shelley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Trump's NIH Just Expanded the Study of Certain Viruses, But Did They Put Humanity at Risk?