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Layoffs, Upheaval at CDC Trigger Fears on Handling Disease Outbreaks

America is facing threats of infectious diseases on multiple fronts; cases of measles are escalating in Texas and the surrounding states, bird flu is spreading across the country, and cases of polio and Ebola abroad pose an added risk to Americans due to international travel. Amid all these threats of infectious diseases, the U.S. CDC is experiencing mass layoffs and a great deal of uncertainty triggered by Trump’s efforts to downsize federal health agencies and reduce government spending.

How soon will stability return to the CDC and other health agencies? Only time will tell, but the cost in terms of inadequate disease response could be high. The policy-level disruptions could end up having negative effects on efforts by firms like Scinai Immunotherapeutics Ltd. (NASDAQ: SCNI) aimed at developing immune therapies targeting many of the…

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