Trumps Dismantling Of Usaid Raises Risk Of Mpox Global Emergency, Experts Warn

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say everybodys lost As the dismantles the US Agency for International Development USAid and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox formerly known as monkeypox is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid workers and global health experts. Its a real mistake not to be doing everything we can to control this while were still able to, said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University focusing on risk assessment of infectious diseases. Taking huge steps backwards is only going to make everything worse.