World Health — disorder
[ by Charles Cameron — withdraw preventive measures, then increase risk ]
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These two, in tandem:
Oy: I saw these two in my twitter feed about two minutes apart.
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Read this as the whiskey:
CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak
Four years after the United States pledged to help the world fight infectious-disease epidemics such as Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries because money is running out, U.S. government officials said.
The CDC programs, part of a global health security initiative, train front-line workers in outbreak detection and work to strengthen laboratory and emergency response systems in countries where disease risks are greatest. The goal is to stop future outbreaks at their source. [..]
The CDC plans to narrow its focus to 10 “priority countries,” starting in October 2019, the official said. They are India, Thailand and Vietnam in Asia; Jordan in the Middle East; Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal in Africa; and Guatemala in Central America.
Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo. Last year, when Congo experienced a potentially deadly Ebola outbreak in a remote, forested area, CDC-trained disease detectives and rapid responders helped contain it quickly.
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Here’s the chaser:
India’s farmed chickens dosed with world’s strongest antibiotics, study finds
Chickens raised in India for food have been dosed with some of the strongest antibiotics known to medicine, in practices that could have repercussions throughout the world. [..]
A study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that hundreds of tonnes of colistin, described as an antibiotic of last resort, have been shipped to India for the routine treatment of animals, chiefly chickens, on farms.
The finding is concerning because the use of such powerful drugs can lead to an increasing resistance among farm animals around the world. Colistin is regarded as one of the last lines of defence against serious diseases, including pneumonia, which cannot be treated by other medicines. Without these drugs, diseases that were commonly treatable in the last century will become deadly once again.
There is nothing to prevent Indian farmers, which include some of the world’s biggest food producers, from exporting their chickens and other related products overseas.
I suppose we should be grateful that India is high on the list of countries the CDC will still target, but..
February 3rd, 2018 at 1:01 pm
When people demand lower taxes, this is the kind of outcome they are provoking. Or America First because we shouldn’t spend money in other nations.
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Congratulations to all who voted this way!
February 4th, 2018 at 1:56 am
Secure the borders, and we won’t have to spend money in other nations. Or maybe Russia and China could step up to the plate instead of sitting back and letting us do all the work. Too many people are hurting here, and need those refunds. I know, because I’m one of them.