The Trump administration's elimination of USAID, facilitated by Elon Musk's DOGE, has crippled U.S. disease response efforts including cyclospora surveillance. The CDC now lacks specialized staff USAID previously provided for parasitic disease monitoring.
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When the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gleefully dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year, it set off a chain of events that is still being felt in the sluggish federal response to a record number of cyclosporiasis infections. USAID helped fund key divisions of the...
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