Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used a novel disease-mapping method to study how the 2015 HIV outbreak was transmitted.

The state rose seven spots in the ranking this year, from 34th to 27th. But, it still spends only 10 percent of the $73 million the CDC recommends.

Attorney General Curtis Hill, has accused the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of manipulating facts in order to push a “pro-needle-exchange agenda.”

The state has implemented just one of five CDC-recommended measures to prevent the spread of the disease through sharing contaminated needles.

Federal funding for Zika research is expected to run out by the end of September.

Parts of Indiana have witnessed an increasing number of heroin overdoses in recent months. The CDC says overdose deaths have increased nearly 300 percent.