The United States is no longer submitting its data on flu cases to the World Health Organization after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20. Scientist Angela

He also ordered staff members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cut off all communications with WHO representatives. In his first week, Trump also issued a stop-work order pending a 90-day review on nearly all programs of the United States Agency for International Development,

Health officials across the United States are on high alert after the country's first reported measles death in nearly a decade, amid a growing number of cases in Texas. The victim was a school-aged child in Texas who was unvaccinated,

The interim guidance document was shared with staff Thursday in the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, or NCIRD, and specifically its Influenza Division — but it was worded broadly, referring to CDC staff in general in its body text. It’s not clear how many other CDC divisions received the memo.

The Utah senator, along with other Republican lawmakers, introduced legislation calling for a ‘complete withdrawal’ from the international organization.

One of Trump’s biggest complaints was that the agency was too slow to alert the world of an emerging health threat in China and to move to contain its spread. Local newspapers had been reporting that a mysterious illness was spreading around Wuhan as early as November 17, 2019, a fact backed up by genetic analysis.

The approximately $600 million of the department’s budget that comes from federal funds has not been cut yet, but the concern keeps interim Commissioner Michelle Morse up at night.