How federal funding cuts are impacting research into climate-related illnesses

As climate change raises temperatures across the world, more and more people are becoming infected with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness often contracted in tropical climates.

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Zoya Teirstein, staff writer with our editorial partners at Grist, about how studying the connection between climate change and the rise in dengue cases is going to become harder with the recent federal funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health.