A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called "emerging diseases" such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved contagions, mounting evidence suggested they were ancient pathogens that had circulated among humans for thousands of years. What really was emerging was accurate diagnosis: Medicine only recently had acquired the ability to detect these diseases and track the toll of outbreaks.
The significant funding reductions mean that certain activities will simply not happen, said Jamal Ahmed, the WHO's director of polio eradication, at a news conference on Tuesday. list of 3 itemsend of list Officials said that the shortfall is largely driven by reduced foreign aid, particularly from the United States, which has stepped back from the WHO since President Donald Trump returned to office.
Widespread, chaotic layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week have impaired the agency and removed its leadership, former agency scientists warned on Tuesday. The latest lossessome 600 layoffs made by the Trump administration over the weekendremoved experts in measles, child health, vital statistics and overseas Ebola outbreaks, as well as many others, from the federal health agency.
Daniel P. Johnson, a geographer at Indiana University at Indianapolis, works with a team of researchers who spend a lot of time catching blowflies, dissecting their iridescent blue-green abdomens, and analyzing the contents of their guts. Johnson and his colleagues are tracking the spread of Lyme disease on a warming planet. But they need a lot of additional data. They get it from NASA.
