According to sources familiar with the case, an aristocratic American epidemiology program known as “Disease Detectives” was rejected by the Trump administration on Friday, which was a blow for public health efforts, because on bird flu Fear increases.
Alon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department as dismissal is pushed to reduce the federal government and the newly reinforced Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has pledged to overhall the country’s health agencies.
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“We are potentially on the verge of another epidemic and we are fire to those who collectively have more expertise than someone else in the country.”
The first reported cut by CBS News, still part of the comprehensive efforts to remove employees in its probation period, can be more easily rejected.
Established in 1951, epidemic intelligence service is a two-year post-doctoral training program, with officials at the limits of investigating outbreaks from the first Ebola cases in Africa in the 1970s. States.
“We will not end smallpox from the world without those officials,” the official said. “We had fans across the country, passed through mud and navigated rivers on boats to eliminate smallpox.”
‘Effect on direct health protection’
Known as the language of colloquial as “disease detectives”, researchers are hired annually through a competitive process, which takes hundreds of applicants down every year – in which doctors, nurses, scientists and Many include – for a square of dozens.
While some are stationed at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, others are posted across the country.
Several former CDC directors started their career as EIS officers, highlighting the role of the program as a pipeline for leadership in public health.
There are about 140 officers in two classes. On Friday, the 2024 class was informed that he would receive the ending email that afternoon, while the 2023 class was informed that his position was still subject to the review.
Around 30 officers of both classes were hired through a separate mechanism under the American Public Health Services, meaning they are unaffected for now.
Overall, about 1,300 CDC employees – approximately 10 percent of the agency’s workforce – according to CBS News, was rejected.
A senior scholar from the University of Johns Hopkins told AFP, “Epidemic Seva is one of the most stored and reputed programs of CDC.”
“Any attempt to abolish this program will directly affect America’s national and health safety.”
Health Secretary RFK Junior has not created any secret of his despise for infectious disease research, recently suggesting that it should be completely stopped for eight years, while the focus should be shifted to address the old conditions. goes.
Beyond its famous anti-vaccine stance, Kennedy has expressed doubts about widely accepted infectious pathology, questioning whether germs cause germs and cause HIV AIDS.
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