New York (AP) – Officials of the US public health system were immediately stopped with the World Health Organization with immediate effect.
John Nkengasong, a US official for disease control and prevention, sent a memo to the agency leading leader on Sunday evening that all employees who work with the WHO immediately stop their cooperation and “wait for further instructions”.
Experts said that the sudden interruption was a surprise and would cover the work on the examination and the attempt to stop the outbreaks of Marburg -Virus and MPOX in Africa and brew global threats. It also happens as health authorities around the world monitor the outbreak of bird flu among the farm animals of bird flu.
The Associated Press looked at a copy of the NKENGASONG memo, in which the STOP work guideline for “all CDC employees who are with whom through technical working groups, coordination centers, advisory bodies, cooperative agreements or other medium-personally or virtual become. It also means that CDC employees are not allowed to visit WHO offices.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week to start the US’s withdrawal process, but that has not achieved any immediate effect. If you request the approval of the congress and the United States meet your financial obligations for the current financial year. The United States must also give a one -year announcement.
His administration also asked the federal health agencies to stop most communication with the public by the end of the month.
“Communication and meetings with who is a big problem,” said Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, an expert in public health at the University of Southern California, who works together with working against sexually transmitted infections.
“People thought there would be a slow retreat. This really caught all of this, ”said Klausner, who said he found out about it from someone at CDC.
“With who is a two-way street,” he added, finding that the two agencies benefit from the expertise of the other. The collaboration enables the United States to experience fresh treatments and emerging outbursts through fresh tests – information that can facilitate us protect Americans abroad and at home, ”said Klausner.
The CDC describes almost 30 people to those who and send many millions of dollars through cooperative agreements. The US agency also has some of the world’s leading experts for infectious diseases and threats to public health, and the employees of the two agencies are in daily contact via health risks and how to stop them.
Cooperation is not the only global health effect of Trump’s executive orders. Last week, the President frightened the expenses for another critical program, Pepper, or the President of the President for AIDS’s relief.
The anti-HIV program is attributed to the rescue of 25 million lives, including that of 5.5 million children, since Republican President George W. Bush started. It was included in a Trump administration that freezes for a period of at least three months of trained expenses for foreign aids.
Pepfar provides more than 20 million people HIV medication, “and the stops of the essential funds stop their HIV treatment,” said the President of the International AIDS Society, President of the AIDS Society, in a statement. “If that happens, people will die and HIV will reappear.”
A US health officer confirmed that the CDC ended its work with whom. The person was not entitled to talk about the memo and spoke in the condition of anonymity.
A WHO spokesman referred questions about the withdrawal to US officials.
Officials from the US Ministry of Health and the human service did not immediately respond to an email after comment. And CDC officers did not respond to the AP’s request to talk to Nkengasong about the memo.
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AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard contributed to this report.
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