Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say everybody's lost'

As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid workers and global health experts.

It's a real mistake not to be doing everything we can to control this while we're still able to," said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University focusing on risk assessment of infectious diseases. Taking huge steps backwards is only going to make everything worse."