Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: Avian flu surges as Brooke Rollins dismantles Department of Agriculture infrastructure

Hire a clown, expect a circus.

Headline: NPR,

Will Stone reports:

Puryear says a network of influenza researchers used to be in constant contact with their counterparts at federal health agencies about H5N1, mapping out research priorities and discussing changes in the virus.
But now, she says, "much of that infrastructure has been either completely closed down or significantly hampered," under the Trump administration, due to cutbacks in staffing, early retirements and other policies.
In fact, Puryear recalls a recent meeting that consisted entirely of her colleagues announcing they'd had to halt their studies related to H5N1 in humans because of the administration's funding cuts.

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