Article On Federal Health Agencies Being Cut [View all]
"A Nobel Prize-winning scientist is still waiting on a crucial research grant from the United States government that was supposed to start weeks ago.
A fired public health worker at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries that she and her family will lose their housing as her pay runs out in mid-March.
And federal agencies overseeing the nation’s attempts to control bird flu are rapidly trying to rescind terminations of employees who are central to that effort.
The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to federal health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of bird flu but a historic measles outbreak centered in West Texas and the worst year for the seasonal flu in more than a decade.
“If these actions continue, they could have deadly consequences,” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health."
The complete article is at the link below--
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-consequences-health-agencies-reel-130047119.html
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