CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak
Source: Washington Post
Four years after the United States pledged to help the world fight infectious-disease epidemics such as Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries because money is running out, U.S. government officials said.
The CDC programs, part of a global health security initiative, train front-line workers in outbreak detection and work to strengthen laboratory and emergency response systems in countries where disease risks are greatest. The goal is to stop future outbreaks at their source.
Most of the funding comes from a one-time, five-year emergency package that Congress approved to respond to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. About $600 million was awarded to the CDC to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics. That money is slated to run out by September 2019. Despite statements from President Trump and senior administration officials affirming the importance of controlling outbreaks, officials and global infectious-disease experts are not anticipating that the administration will budget additional resources.
Two weeks ago, the CDC began notifying staffers and officials abroad about its plan to downsize these activities, because officials assume there will be no new resources, said a senior government official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss budget matters. Notice is being given now to CDC country directors as the very first phase of a transition, the official said. There is a need for forward planning, the official said, to accommodate longer advance notice for staffers and for leases and property agreements. The downsizing decision was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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SCVDem
(5,103 posts)we fight them over 'there' so we don't need to fight them here.
Now Dump is thinning the herd.
Cut health care and then allow pandemics to spread, killing many.
If you get sick, hug a Republican!
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slumcamper
(1,606 posts)Why should the oft' self-proclaimed, self-righteous "richest nation on earth" bear any moral responsibility toward anyone else when we can just build walls, halt immigration, and keep all those nasties from entering our great country?
USA! USA! USA!
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)From a self-preservation standpoint this makes no sense. People are too mobile for this type of shortsighted nonsense.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)They will be far more devastating.
Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)Courtesy of the kook brothers and their ilk. They are just one more step removed this time compared to 20th century German Nazis. But once more bringing about death of the unwanted on a massive scale.
MythosMaster
(445 posts)Sickening. Pun intended.
haele
(12,659 posts)will be exposed to pandemic diseases by their staff and the delivery people who aren't as isolated from the rest of the world as they are. Especially the so-called "germaphobes" who insist on constant cleaning and their spotless mansions.
Since most of the Koch/Mercer CEO types are so disdainful of workers and the general public, they'll be far more susceptible to the virii and bacteria that can be picked up at their - or their children's - casual attendance to clubs or upscale parties, or just the travel to foreign countries for "events" or shopping, even if they do travel private jets and limousines everywhere.
By not being part of the herd, they're far more at risk for diseases where the "lower classes" have already developed a form of herd immunity. And it's so easy to pass germs around, even in a "clean" environment that's regularly maintained.
Pandemics don't discriminate between "rich" and "poor".
My wealthy FIL died from a form of encephalitis developed after contracting West Nile Virus; he was bit by a mosquito when he was out playing golf in late October, a couple weeks after the epidemic was declared over. It was so quick; he thought he had a mild sinus infection the day after, the fever suddenly spiked that night and he was rushed to the hospital - delirious - within a half hour of it appearing. His brain started swelling and body started shutting down three days after he was bit. He had the best medical care money could buy - access to one of the best hospital systems in the country, and he had a doctor on call - and he still died of a disease carried by a common mosquito.
Haele
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)will not be addressed by the CDC. I get the message clearly. Donald Trump is saying, "Let the brown people die."
Feh!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,464 posts)to get here from elsewhere in the world in a matter of hours.
Bragi2
(37 posts)Mexico will pay for all the fake diseases from fake shitholes, believe me.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Military spills that much in coffee change every day.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)corporations.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)When we're not having a flu epidemic...please.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)miyazaki
(2,243 posts)dembotoz
(16,806 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)NickB79
(19,246 posts)And guess what, we're ignoring that too.
It's a perfect storm of dumbfuckery bearing down on humanity.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)why all the posters in all VA clinics and hospitals asking you to notify someone if you have been to certain countries in the last 30 days?
ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)Recently had a patient with some sort of superbug he got from India I think. One of the surgeons walked in the room forgetting to gown up, and literally threw out his jacket after.
Bacteria are getting stronger and more resistantmutating fast. Not keeping up on this is horrible policy
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Bigly safer.