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rustoleumlove@mastodon.online ("Anne Ominous") wrote:

it'll be wild if tuberculosis makes a huge comeback in America because the US is full of idiots who thought trump would lower gas prices.

USAID Freeze could leave US vulnerable to TB, other diseases

#tuberculosis #health #science #disease #news

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/usaid-funding-freeze-disrupts-global-tuberculosis-control-efforts

Furin noted the irony of the funding freeze. The work supported by USAID, she said, has helped ensure that outbreaks caused by TB and other deadly infectious diseases are identified quickly and managed in the places they're happening before they reach the United States. But this action, she said, "puts the lives and health of Americans at risk." "USAID has been dedicated to putting America first by protecting Americans before these health problems can reach our shores," she said. "They used less than 1% of the US budget to do this." That's why, ultimately, Ditiu thinks the new US administration won't walk away entirely from funding global TB control efforts, though the manner in which it funds such efforts going forward might be different. "I don't think the US will pull out completely because TB is airborne…it's like COVID," she said. "As long as you breathe, you cannot walk away from it."