{"id":8889,"date":"2025-03-05T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:44:10","slug":"the-us-is-withdrawing-from-global-health-at-a-dangerous-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/05\/the-us-is-withdrawing-from-global-health-at-a-dangerous-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Withdrawing From Global Health at a Dangerous Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-02\/the-consequences-of-trump-s-cdc-overhaul-who-exit-worry-scientists?embedded-checkout=true\">Bloomberg<\/a> To keep an eye on some of the world\u2019s most dangerous infectious diseases, scientists rely on reports from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/initiatives\/measles-and-rubella-laboratory-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network<\/a>. Known affectionately as Gremlin, it\u2019s a grouping of more than 700 international labs that test about 500,000 patient samples annually. Gremlin monitors the prevalence of a huge range of pathogens in addition to those in its full name, including Covid-19, RSV, dengue, yellow fever and Ebola. And it does so on a remarkably modest budget: just $8 million a year, or less than 10% of the price tag for a single\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-04-15\/cost-of-sustaining-lockheed-s-f-35-jet-now-forecast-to-exceed-1-5-trillion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">F-35 fighter jet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-02\/the-consequences-of-trump-s-cdc-overhaul-who-exit-worry-scientists?embedded-checkout=true\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg To keep an eye on some of the world\u2019s most dangerous infectious diseases, scientists rely on reports from the\u00a0Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network. Known affectionately as Gremlin, it\u2019s a grouping of more than 700 international labs that test about 500,000 patient samples annually. Gremlin monitors the prevalence of a huge range of pathogens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}