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America Slow to Respond to Hantavirus after Trump Quit World Health Organization Say Experts - FIVE MINUTES NEWS
The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius isn’t another Covid — but it exposed something deeply alarming about America’s public health system. As the WHO led the global response, the CDC appeared slow, understaffed, and politically constrained after years of cuts, attacks on public health expertise, and the U.S. withdrawal from international cooperation.
This video examines how the gutting of the CDC and HHS left the United States dangerously unprepared for the next major outbreak — and why the real crisis may be institutional collapse, not just the virus itself. - 05/11/2026.