US Aid Cuts Hinder Congo Outbreak
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A Lethal Mystery Illness Is Spreading in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response
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An unidentified illness with Ebola-like symptoms has ravaged several villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
The disease is still officially unidentified, but there are conflicting theories emerging about its cause.
By abruptly gutting USAID , the Donald Trump administration has created a vacuum that other agencies will struggle to fill.
Disease and illness do not yield to the concept of borders.
An outbreak in one country can easily become an outbreak in another.
Covid-19, which originated in China , quickly impacted every nation.
US has a national interest in monitoring and containing these and other illnesses is to guard against them spreading into the country.
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