Global & Disaster Medicine

CDC is dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries because money is running out

February 2nd, 2018

Washington Post

“…..The CDC plans to narrow its focus to 10 “priority countries,” starting in October 2019, the official said. They are India, Thailand and Vietnam in Asia; Jordan in the Middle East; Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal in Africa; and Guatemala in Central America.

Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo……”

 

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