Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
By Will Stone and Pien Huang, NPR
The widespread upheaval at federal health agencies in the first month of the Trump administration comes at a time when the U.S. faces infectious disease threats on multiple fronts: The ongoing spread of bird flu around the country; the risk of emerging insect-borne viruses; and a ballooning measles outbreak in the Southwest.
Abroad, there are new strains of mpox and deadly outbreaks of Ebola and polio just a plane ride away.


