Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again | Gordon Brown

This week , in East Sussex , a case of mpox was announced, the sixth UK case since October .

Also this week , Tanzania ’s president confirmed an outbreak of Marburg , an Ebola-like virus, only after the World Health Organization (WHO ) independently reported nine suspected cases and eight deaths.

President Trump wants to leave, arguing the US shoulders too much of the burden of WHO expenditure.

There is no similar organisation ready to take the place of a body that has 194 member states.

The WHO is right to say that it hopes the US will reconsider, for it is too easy to forget that cross-border efforts have successfully eradicated smallpox, virtually eliminated tuberculosis and polio, reduced Aids-related deaths by almost 70% over 20 years .