So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention." USAID is the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has largely been ...

“So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately. And there was no interruption.” Yet current and former USAID officials said that Musk was wrong: USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been ...

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption.” Experts say the tech billionaire’s reassurance doesn’t paint an accurate picture. USAID has effectively been ...

At a Trump administration cabinet meeting on Wednesday, unelected South African centibillionaire Elon Musk joked about how his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “accidentally ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease. ELON MUSK ...

One of those mistakes was reportedly killing a USAID program that was working to stop Ebola. "We will make mistakes," Musk said. "We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes we'll fix it very ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Musk’s assertion that his slash-and-burn assault on USAID had no negative ...

Enrich warns of preventable deaths due to USAID dismantling Trump's aid freeze affects Ebola, malaria, and tuberculosis efforts DOGE blocks USAID payments despite waiver for lifesaving aid March 2 ...

We faced a risk of that in the 2010s with Ebola, but fortunately — partly because of USAID — we were able to primarily stop it in West Africa. And then Covid-19, of course, which did come to ...

We are sure to regret it. Similarly, USAID’s efforts to stop Ebola at its source are also now gone. USAID’s role in Ebola containment has long been essential. During the 2014 West Africa ...

It notes that the Bureau for Global Health got approval to conduct activities to respond to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, but USAID was never able to draw down the funds and did not receive any ...