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Medical experts tell us that the risk posed by the current Hantavirus outbreak [ [link removed] ], responsible for three deaths, is low. The threat posed by the Trump administration’s posture toward public health is another story.
As seventeen American passengers on the ill-fated Hondius cruise ship [ [link removed] ] are monitored at the National Quarantine Unit [ [link removed] ] at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and other U.S. travelers shelter at home [ [link removed] ], it’s time to acknowledge a far more deadly risk: deep cuts [ [link removed] ] to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an anti-science ideology leave us vulnerable to the next big pandemic or biological threat.
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I was joined at the hip with the CDC’s impressive cadre of epidemiologists [ [link removed] ] when I served as the FBI’s on-scene commander [ [link removed] ] at the site of the nation’s first anthrax murder. Those disease detectives and I led what would become the largest hazardous materials evidence recovery effort in FBI history, at the American Media Incorporated headquarters [ [link removed] ] – a three-story, 66,000 square foot building in Boca Raton, Florida.
The CDC immediately surged significant resources to Palm Beach County to begin the painstaking task of determining how and where microscopic Anthrax spores came into contact with the victim. Around the country at multiple locations where anthrax was turning up, hundreds of interviews were conducted, and thousands of samples were collected and analyzed as the deadly bacteria was traced through the U.S. mail system.
The story of how this effort worked has already been told. The question now is, can the CDC do it again?...

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