In 2025, the #Trump admin "eliminated funding for... a pilot project aimed at studying the type of #hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing (cruise ship) outbreak" which is now believed to have caused the deaths of 3 people and sickened several more..."
The project "was designed to better understand how hantavirus passes from rodents to humans" and was stopped last year after the NIH decided the research was “unsafe.”
#USA #PublicHealth #health
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-cut-funding-to-study-hantavirus-behind-deadly-cruise-ship-outbreak/
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