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Dr. Anthony Fauci: "The more and more we learn, the more you get concerned about the scope of what this virus is doing"

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(CNN) —

“Everything we look at with this (Zika) virus seems to be a little scarier than we initially thought,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC principal deputy director, told reporters during a White House briefing on Monday.

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She was joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease at the NIH. “The more and more we learn, the more you get concerned about the scope of what this virus is doing,” he said.

Both continued to remind the public that new information about the virus is being learned every day.

They reviewed what’s been learned in the two weeks since they last addressed White House reporters on the virus.