Posted on 03/08/2025 4:05:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.
Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders.
The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to dangerous pathogens.
That includes Americans. Outbreaks that begin overseas can travel quickly: The coronavirus may have first appeared in China, for example, but it soon appeared everywhere, including the United States. When polio or dengue appears in this country, cases are usually linked to international travel.
“It’s actually in the interest of American people to keep diseases down,” said Dr. Githinji Gitahi, who heads Amref Health Africa, a large nonprofit that relies on the United States for about 25 percent of its funding.
“Diseases make their way to the U.S. even when we have our best people on it, and now we are not putting our best people on it,” he added.
In interviews, more than 30 current and former officials of the United States Agency for International Development, members of health organizations and experts in infectious diseases described a world made more perilous than it was just a few weeks ago.
Many spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation by the federal government.
The timing is dire: The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing the deadliest mpox outbreak in history, with cases exploding in a dozen other African countries.
The United States is home to a worsening bird flu crisis. Multiple hemorrhagic fever viruses are smoldering: Ebola in Uganda, Marburg in Tanzania,....
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“Diseases make their way to the U.S. even when we have our best people on it,...”
Diseases make their way to the United States because clowns like you let tens of millions of illegal aliens in without screening for disease and crying "racist" to anybody who pointed it out.
And yet these NYT A-holes claiming to care about “disease outbreaks” didn’t give a hang about thousands of illegals per day entering the country unvetted.
Your comment BUMP!
They are making a threat, not giving a warning. Heed this well, they (globalists) are planning to introduce diseases into the US.
They are out of ideas and keep trying the same stuff over and over again. Be wise to their evil.
False. Uncontrolled invasion is the biggest cause of third world disease spread.
Yup.
Ebola years ago, perfect example.
The money spigots were wide open and we still got covid from china so not sure how much of a difference it makes.
LOL
Propaganda blob central shats itself again.
It is not our job to pay for the rest of the world. They can all maybe take over some of this rather than laying it all on us.
Nothing is stopping other countries to kick in more $$.
Fortress America solves that problem.
Agreed. They leaked news of the next pandemic to their ally, the NYT. They are about to try setting up Trump to take the fall for their little creation.
Horse caca
Sounds like a threat to me. A mafia style threat.
That’s because they’re hypocrites, plain and simple.
BS.
Its cutting into kickbacks, slush funds and grifters.
And even so, we are not the endless charity to the world.
“If America doesn’t bankrupt itself human life will end!”
“Diseases make their way to the United States because clowns like you let tens of millions of illegal aliens in without screening for disease and crying “racist” to anybody who pointed it out.”
You took the words right out of my mouth right there in the first reply. Were these people EVER ONCE concerned about the disease risks created by tens of millions of impoverished and uneducated people streaming into the USA?
Author Apoorva Mandavilli grew up in Southern India and speaks four Indian languages.............. surely forth right and no agenda.....
United States taxpayers are NOT the world’s police department, nor or we the world’s health department ... isn’t the latter the responsibility of the U.N. W.H.O. anyway?
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