HHS Has Shut Down Federal Lab Studying the World's Scariest Germs

Friday, May 02, 2025

The Trump administration looks to be surrendering in the war against germs. A new report from Wired reveals the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has shuttered a federal lab dedicated to studying some of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world.

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An NIH research facility tasked with studying ebola and other deadly diseases has been issued instructions from HHS to stop research, and is terminating studies on some diseases, according to an email viewed by @wired.com. By @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni ...

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-- Kate Knibbs (@knibbs.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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"EBOLA"

Let that sink in.

Tell me again that Donald Trump and RFKJR aren't mentally ill.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-02 11:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is another move to cull the vast American herd of poor people in a country that doesn't have universal health care, like every modern developed Western nation has. Note that Russia continued its chemical-biological weapons research after the USSR fell. The Ukrainian intelligence services did the USIC a favor when they rendered ineffective the chief of Russia's CBRN program last year (General Igor Kirillov). Let's see if USSECDEF Pete Hogsbreath cuts the budget of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, MD.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-02 11:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Obligatory.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-02 01:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Texas Measles Outbreak Widens

www.fox4news.com

More stellar work from the orange plague and the heroin addict.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-02 05:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Before the incompetent beaker washers killed 7M with covid, I would have probably said to keep the lab open. But, I have had a change of heart. We don't need these -------- doing this sort of research.

#5 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-02 07:14 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-02 07:14 PM

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Calling you stupid would be an insult to idiots everywhere :)

However...you know damn well what you're spewing is false. That's you're job.

#6 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-05-02 09:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

#5 | POSTED BY INCEL SCATBERG

It's a shame TB didn't kill this------------.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-02 09:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

More blatant criminal negligence from the Trumpy crime family.

And more lies from his rabid cultists.

Equals more deaths of Americans.

Gratz America on your FAFO.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-03 11:58 AM | Reply

Other countries with money damned well better be buying up our scientists and continuing all the important research that Trump is killing

#9 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-03 03:01 PM | Reply

There's no need to study viruses and bacteria if you don't believe they cause they disease.
RFK JR appears to not believe those things cause disease.
www.jalopnik.com

#10 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-04 01:47 AM | Reply

@#5 ... Before the incompetent beaker washers killed 7M with covid, I would have probably said to keep the lab open. ...

Trying so hard to troll, but so poor at it.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-04 02:40 AM | Reply