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I'm really frustrated to be reading these stories today. I spoke to several reporters last year trying to blow the whistle about how the DOGEing of USAID was impacting insights into emergent biological threats on the ground in these countries. That was over a year ago. They should have been reporting about it then. Nobody seemed interested in that angle at the time - I guess even the press needs to wait for people to die for it to matter. https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/nx-s1-5830015/how-funding-cuts-to-usaid-are-impacting-the-ebola-outbreak-in-dr-congo