Map: MDPI
Headline: Science, 3/25/2025
Jon Cohen reports:
The sudden termination of STOP Spillover’s USAID award meant all its programs were left hanging, whether they had lots of work remaining or were a few meetings away from completion, says Felicia Nutter, a co-deputy director of the project and a wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist at Tufts. In Liberia, for example, researchers are trying to figure out what to do with a freezer full of blood samples from people who agreed to be tested for exposure to viruses such as Lassa and Ebola. The in-country team was about halfway through testing those samples, but now, “we’re unable to actually return the results to those research participants,” Gass says. “This is important work that tells us about the circulation of viruses that have pandemic potential. … It’s pretty unbelievable.”
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