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Some US health officials fear that the US Agency for International Development Missions is closed as catastrophic results, because the stopping of foreign aid has forced the delay in what they said was a “chaotic response” early in swelling in Uganda Outbreak.
The eighth fascism is from Uganda from the Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in Outbreak He was nurse At a hospital in the country’s capital, Kampala, who contracted with Ebola on January 20 or January 21 and died on January 29.
There are now six confirmed cases and six suspects. In two cases of suspects, according to a joint internal chip with CBS News, the health authorities have not identified any epidemic link to other cases.
More than ten Americans in Uganda are also among those known so far have been exposed to Sudan’s virus, the type of Ebola that affected the initial state. These people have not yet appeared symptoms, two people said to be a CBS News.
There is no vaccine or treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the Sudan virus. This Ebola breed was fatal in at least 41 % of the reported cases during the outbreak of the past, according to Global Health Organization.
The new fascism coincides with the Trump administration stopped in external aid – including its response to international fascism that can spread. This has led to uncertainty among non -profit organizations, which now face unpaid debts and a comprehensive freezing of many of their American financing.
“What we are talking about is disaster relief workers, and we are talking about health workers and people who protect and protect America all over the world,” said Dr. Atul -Jawandi, former CBS News, former director of CBS News. on monday.
A US official said that the stoppage had followed the contact with the capture of employees and the examination of international travelers leaving in Uganda, because many experts funded by the United States throughout the region have been demobilized or ordered to stop work.
The United States Agency for International Development has been appointed to put all its employees on vacation Friday It closes external tasks.
“The world is at risk,” said one of the US Agency for International Development. “I am not worrying, but this is very bad,” the official added.
In 2022, the outbreak of the Sudan virus in Uganda pushed a major American response. US bag Examination and preparation for the virus here and send it Employees and resources To help Uganda’s efforts to contain its spread.
Uganda’s health care system has already been extended in recent months, fighting a separate outbreak of a different disease – MPOX – which led to at least 2031 cases, According to from.
Speakers of the Foreign Ministry and the US International Development Agency did not respond immediately to request a comment.
President Trump also ordered the United States withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which was associated with a request to all US government employees immediately Collaboration With the United Nations agency that helps to coordinate the response within the country.
A health official in the United States said that the Center for Disease Control usually works closely with the World Health Organization and the country’s health authorities, and it often meets daily to coordinate the response to the outbreak of this.
Despite the president’s order regarding who, “the center of diseases control for individual speaking with the World Health Organization associated with response activities in Uganda, said a spokesman for the Disease Control Center in a statement. The Center for Disease Control said that such talks are also permitted with regard to responses on the outbreak of other interest in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An official said that US agencies’ attempts to publish employees to help respond to the outbreak were also delayed, amid a temporary interruption at the government level for travel and spending.
While officials obtained a waiver on Saturday from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to free some funds to respond, many of the beneficiaries of American funds were hesitant to accept funds due to the unrest in Washington, two people familiar with the situation said.
Also, non -profit organizations are struggling with an increasing number of demands imposed by the Trump administration as a condition for receiving funds, such as a comprehensive order to purify all gender signals and diversity “at every level and activity, regardless of your site or citizenship of citizenship or contractors” supported by US dollars.
In Uganda, groups are still awaiting clarification from their contacts within the country at the United States Agency for International Development on how to apply their work, as people said, beware of incurring more expenses that may never be paid.
After Mr. Trump’s executive orders, the country’s Ministry of Health urged all CDC employees and the American International Development Agency to “continue working in the spirit of patriotism as volunteers”, in a message obtained by CBS News, and Ugandan officials sought “to restore normal life.”
“Silence of Radio” from the Center for Disease Control
Officials told CBS News that the growing outbreak of fascism in Uganda had left some government and local health authorities with the “Silence of Radio” from the Center for Disease Control.
In the event of the outbreak of the past, the officials of the Disease Control Center rushed to start increasing the possibility of spreading cases to the United States
External meetings and information that participate in the fact that the health authorities are usually relied on to communicate with the officials of the Center for Disease Control in Communications “stop” through the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, or HHS.
A HHS spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The interruption of communications was expected to end at the end of this week, but many federal health officials say they are still facing delay or denial in obtaining approval to publish information or participate in external meetings.
“HHS continues to increase employee levels as we look forward to the new secretary who leads the agency. HHS has agreed to many communications related to critical health and safety needs and will continue to do so,” Andrew Nixon, Director of Communications at the Administration, told CBS News. In a previous statement.
Officials said that some states are working on unofficial partnerships to increase their willingness to arrival in potential cases.
The Center for Disease Control was able to do so to publish On Wednesday’s travel alert about travel to Uganda, but he left links and information from the Upper Egypt updates about the outbreak.
Other donors enter
Not all health experts are concerned about the current situation.
Two infectious pathologists in the United States who worked with the outbreak of the disease in the country have expressed their confidence that groups and other countries will be able to fill the void left by American support, but they recognized that they were concerned about the possibility of spreading and delaying the response.
In the outbreak of Ebola in the past, the United States has often funded many major steps to contain the outbreak of its early days, including rushing to create insulation facilities and support an outbreak from a group of non -governmental organizations with workers in the country.
Usually the US -funded laboratories were on the front lines of the previous responses to the outbreak, through institutions such as the Uganda Virus Research Institute.
Some groups, such as Médecins Sans Frontières and who, tried to cover the deficiency. Global Health Organization Recently described Launch – with the help of Canada and Europe – from the vaccination experience in response to the outbreak.
Russia may also help fill the void left by the American departure: The government media said recently that the nation launched a mobile laboratory in the capital of Uganda to help spread the disease.
