Funding cuts cripple CDC’s cyclospora outbreak response
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Trump-era budget cuts and dismantling of USAID left the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases understaffed (from 11 to 3), slowing tracing, lab work, and data reporting on a growing cyclospora outbreak centered in the Midwest, with nationwide cases approaching 7,000 and over 100 hospitalizations; experts warn that lost personnel and funding have delayed identifying the source, even as agencies push to speed up surveillance and testing.
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