These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding
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特朗普政府去年削减了美国国立卫生研究院下设的新兴传染病研究中心网络的资金，导致该网络无法在刚果民主共和国伊图里省参与抗击快速蔓延的埃博拉疫情。该网络在全球设有10个站点，研究包括埃博拉病毒在内的野生动物向人类传播的病毒。其五年约8200万美元的资助原定2025年续期，但去年6月收到停工令，理由是其研究被认为“对美国人不安全且不是纳税人资金的合理使用”。
As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri Province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground. The reason: The Trump administration slashed its funding last year, in part due to conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
Established in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network was conducting research into viruses that emerge from wildlife and spill over to people, including the family of viruses that Ebola belongs to. The network operated 10 sites around the world where these types of disease outbreaks are likely to occur, including in Central and East Africa. (The network was also researching hantavirus, a disease that saw a recent rare outbreak on a cruise ship.)
NIH provided CREID with approximately $82 million in funding over five years, and its funding was up for renewal in 2025. But last June, the centers received a stop-work order stating that their research had been deemed “unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding,” and that the agency’s priorities no longer supported the network.
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