Map: CREID
Headline: Science, 6/9/2025
The 10 Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) were launched 5 years ago with a projected $82 million in funding to collect and characterize mosquito-borne viruses and other pathogens that could jump from animals to people. NIH had planned to renew the network this year. But a 6 June stop-work order for one center states that the network’s research “has been deemed unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding. Current agency priorities do not support this work.”
The message did not elaborate on the risks posed by the research, and a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH, did not respond to questions. [emphasis added regarding someone just following orders]
I’m disappointed that this and other research aimed at identifying and preventing future pandemics has been deemed unsafe and useless,” Kris Smith, a CREID postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University works in Kenya, wrote on Bluesky.
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