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.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak
By Lena H. Sun
February 1, 2018 at 1:53 p.m. EST