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Trump-Cuts to USAID causes a resurgence of Tuberculosis.

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VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Mar 12

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We used to have someone else who did headline dumps with no URLs. This is a forum where you can spill your guts if you would care to or inform if that is your gig. I am not sure what brings you here, but I am going to add context, even though there are many here who seem to hate me for it. My sister has had it twice, likely because, like me, she was infected with Coccidiomycosis/Valley Fever which can weaken the lungs severely.

Since Jan. 24, the discontinuation of USAID funding may have led to an estimated 3,600 additional tuberculosis deaths and 6,400 additional infections, according to a project modeling the impact of the cuts. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tuberculosis-surge-possible-usaid-cuts-trump-who-rcna195190

A warning from the WHO on March 3: https://www.who.int/news/item/05-03-2025-funding-cuts-to-tuberculosis-programmes-endanger-millions-of-lives

TB is serious stuff. It has been around for a very long time. (See: Consumption) Like Polio and measles, it was close to being eradicated...

White death

TB is a very powerful virus. Here is everything we all should know.

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VACCINATE or ICU later 🐊Alligator

Mar 12

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Please tell your Members of Congress to support humanitarian aid

https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/

Internal Memos March 3

Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis

“For weeks, some of the federal government’s foremost authorities on global health have repeatedly warned Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other leaders about the coming death toll if they carried out the Trump administration’s plan to end nearly all U.S. foreign aid around the world.”

'In their clearest accounting yet, top officials have estimated the casualties: One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.

Partners in Health

Here is just one of the many health organizations that were getting close to eradicating TB in poor countries. https://www.pih.org/programs/tuberculosis

PIH has received critical USAID funding to: respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, bolster medical oxygen systems, care for pregnant mothers and newborns, provide food for acutely malnourished children, enable supply chains, and prevent and treat infectious diseases.

USAid cuts

Could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/us-aid-cuts-tuberculosis-tb-untreatable-bug-drug-resistance-stop-tb-partnership-who