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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaxgc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2019 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:07 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Hyde-Smith, Murray, Durbin, Shaheen, and Schatz. TESTIMONY ON THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AND OTHER EMERGING HEALTH THREATS OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. Well, by Senate time standards we are not in too bad a shape, but let me apologize for keeping you waiting for a few minutes and apologize to Senator Murray and Senator Schatz for keeping them as well. I think we will have other members attend but they are just now beginning to think about the time to leave their office and come to the hearing, as maybe I was. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies will come to order. We are certainly glad to have our witnesses here today. We are really trying to hold this hearing in a way that highlights the im- portance of emerging health threats to our country's security, and our economic and physical well-being. The second largest Ebola outbreak is currently occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have concerns about antibiotic resistance as a global danger. And there is always an impending flu outbreak that we worry about every year. We do know for sure that disease has no boundaries, that infec- tious diseases not only spread from country-to-country, but also af- fect whether people are willing to go from country-to-country, they affect trade, they affect travel. Every year since the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization has re- leased a list of infectious diseases that experts believe are espe- cially high risk. These are diseases for which there are no treatments, no cures, no vaccines, and I know all of you think about that. That list of

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