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Congressional officials say the Obama administration is about to announce it will transfer leftover money from the largely successful fight against Ebola to combat the growing threat of the Zika virus. The officials say roughly 75 percent of the $600 million or so would be devoted to the Centers for Disease Control. The agency focuses on research and development of anti-Zika vaccines, treating those infected with the virus and combating the mosquitoes that spread it. (Taylor, 4/6)

The Obama administration plans to spend unused Ebola funds to fight the Zika virus, a breakthrough that could ease the standoff with Congress over the administration’s request for emergency money for the crisis. The administration will jump-start the Zika effort using leftover money that Congress had given the health agencies to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to two congressional sources. The biggest amount of unused money is $600 million that was intended to help 30 countries improve, and in some cases build, public health systems to make them better prepared to fight future infectious diseases. (Nather and Scott, 4/5)

Keera Galindo has lived 15 years with an unusually small head but only a few months with a public spotlight on the surprisingly common condition. Keera and scores of other Iowa children have microcephaly, meaning their brains and skulls are undersize. Few Americans had heard of the condition until last winter. That changed as news reports filled with alarming images from South and Central America, where babies are being born with a severe form of microcephaly after their mothers were infected with a mosquito-borne virus called Zika. (Leys, 4/5)