The CDC typically confirms infectious diseases for state and local public health laboratories that are not equipped to conduct them.
DOGE cuts, layoffs, and hiring freezes have crippled the CDC. Many researchers have departed for greener pastures, either to universities, overseas, or to local or state public health agencies.

By July, the CDC rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials and the pox virus team will have none.

Good-for-nothing James O'Neill, the Acting Director of the CDC, has no medical background whatsoever and once worked for nefarious mega-oligarch Peter Thiel.

Recall that immediately after seizing power on 20 Jan 2025, besides pardoning 1,500 degenerate misfits that viciously attacked the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021, Dummkopf Trumpf withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO).

52 US Senators confirmed this madman to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).