Scientists Were Hunting for the Next Ebola....the U.S. Has Cut Off Their Funding

[Straw Man]

yet another fuck up by the Moron in Chief and I'm sure if any reporter asks him about it he will first pretend to know nothing about and then attack the reporter for asking a "nasty" question

This progam cost about 200 million a year

So far we (US Tax Payers) have spent about 135 million to cover the expense of Trumps golf trips

Oct. 25, 2019

Scientists Were Hunting for the Next Ebola. Now the U.S. Has Cut Off Their Funding.
Predict, a government research program, sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans and to head off new pandemics.


In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans.

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that a new animal disease that can also infect humans is discovered every four months. Ending the program, experts fear, will leave the world more vulnerable to lethal pathogens like Ebola and MERS that emerge from unexpected places, such as bat-filled trees, gorilla carcasses and camel barns.

The program, known as Predict and run by the United States Agency for International Development, was inspired by the 2005 H5N1 bird flu scare. Launched 10 years ago, the project has cost about $207 million.

The initiative has collected over 140,000 biological samples from animals and found over 1,000 new viruses, including a new strain of Ebola. Predict also trained about 5,000 people in 30 African and Asian countries, and has built or strengthened 60 medical research laboratories, mostly in poor countries.

Dennis Carroll, the former director of USAID’s emerging threats division who helped design Predict, oversaw it for a decade and retired when it was shut down. The surveillance project is closing because of “the ascension of risk-averse bureaucrats,” he said.

Because USAID’s chief mission is economic aid, he added, some federal officials felt uncomfortable funding cutting-edge science like tracking exotic pathogens.

Congress, along with the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, were “enormously supportive,” said Dr. Carroll, who is now a fellow at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

“But things got complicated in the last two years, and by January, Predict was essentially collapsed into hibernation.”

The end of the program “is definitely a loss,” said Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit global health organization that received funding from the program. “Predict was an approach to heading off pandemics, instead of sitting there waiting for them to emerge and then mobilizing. That’s expensive."

“The United States spent $5 billion fighting Ebola in West Africa,” he added. “This costs far less.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html

[Board_SHERIF]

so what ?

[The Scott]

fuckoff strawcunt

[Irongrip400]

so what ?

Uh oh, be prepared to be called “trumptard” by our resident moron/gimmick/troll. Not sure which one he is, but he’s at least two of those three.

[Coach is Back!]

yet another fuck up by the Moron in Chief and I'm sure if any reporter asks him about it he will first pretend to know nothing about and then attack the reporter for asking a "nasty" question

This progam cost about 200 million a year

So far we (US Tax Payers) have spent about 135 million to cover the expense of Trumps golf trips


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html

41/2 more year bitch, then Don Jr. takes over 😂😂😂

[Straw Man]

Looks like FACTS make Trumptards angry

Why is that?

[Board_SHERIF]

Looks like FACTS make Trumptards angry

Why is that?

in your own words tell us why this is bad? you cant as Fake News never tells you any real facts...sad

[Sissysquats]

Bezos has made bank since this started, let him fund it. Same with Gates.

[Princess L]

yet another fuck up by the Moron in Chief and I'm sure if any reporter asks him about it he will first pretend to know nothing about and then attack the reporter for asking a "nasty" question

This progam cost about 200 million a year

So far we (US Tax Payers) have spent about 135 million to cover the expense of Trumps golf trips


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html

Even though USAID is “incredibly proud and happy over the work Predict has done,” the program is closing because it reached the end of a 10-year funding cycle, said Irene Koek, acting assistant administrator of the agency’s global health bureau.

“We typically do programs in five-year cycles, and it had two,” she said. Some similar research will be part of future budget requests, “but it’s still in the design-and-procurement cycle, so exactly what will continue is a bit of a black box.”

[Soul Crusher]

Do you even read what you post? 

yet another fuck up by the Moron in Chief and I'm sure if any reporter asks him about it he will first pretend to know nothing about and then attack the reporter for asking a "nasty" question

This progam cost about 200 million a year

So far we (US Tax Payers) have spent about 135 million to cover the expense of Trumps golf trips

Oct. 25, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Looks like FACTS make Trumptards angry

Why is that?

STUPID RK/Straw girl, WHY top 10 African billioners (Nigerian petrol guy is #.10 in the world) don't finance Ebola & similar shit !.

WHY should be American tax payer paying for it !.



Looks like FACTS make YOU angry

Why is that?

[SCRUBS]

Looks like FACTS make Trumptards angry

Why is that?

They don`t appear to be the ones that are angry, you do. Just sayin.

[JustPlaneJane]

yet another fuck up by the Moron in Chief and I'm sure if any reporter asks him about it he will first pretend to know nothing about and then attack the reporter for asking a "nasty" question

This progam cost about 200 million a year

So far we (US Tax Payers) have spent about 135 million to cover the expense of Trumps golf trips

Oct. 25, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html

[chaos]

LMFAO

[Humble Narcissist]

We should have stopped funding the United Nations and W.H.O. a long time ago.

[chaos]

We should have stopped funding the United Nations and W.H.O. a long time ago.

Absolutely, 100% correct.