On the borders of the country, federal workers keep the country safe in several ways: some of them investigate sick passengers. Some animal examination of dangerous pathogens. Some plants are lost from injuries that can spread in this country.
Late last week, the Trump administration sent hundreds of federal employees with the same message that colleagues received in other agencies: their services are no longer needed.
Experts have warned of the absence of these federal officers on the border, making Americans vulnerable to the causes of diseases carried by plants, animals and people.
The shootings come even when the Trump administration is said to be plans that are preparing to restore immigrants on the basis that they may bring diseases such as tuberculosis and measles to the country.
“Examination of infectious diseases in entry ports is an important role for public health in order to prevent infectious diseases from entering our country,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease doctor at Emory University.
He added: “The lack of public health employees to do this task is worrying and makes us less safe.”
Disease Control and Prevention Centers are estimated that approximately 30,000 aircraft travel inside and outside the country. In 2019, more than 400 million passengers arrived in more than 300 entry outlets. About half of these people crossed the border between the United States and Mexico.
The border jobs are managed by the workers of multiple agencies. Employees from the World Health Screen Department for Global Deportation, animals and animal products for diseases, responding to the reports of sick travelers and drug distribution as needed.
Last week, the Trump administration rejected an unknown number of people from CDC 20 health stations, leaving some of them not completely monitored, according to three officials who are aware of the situation.
For example, calls were redirected to the port station in San Juan, on Wednesday, to the station in Miami, where an employee at the Center for Disease Control, who refused to identify his identity, said that no one in San Juan Post “” is very long time. “
Other ports stations in Anchorage, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and three cities in Texas.
Conditions for the Disease Control Center can detention or unleashing people and wildlife suspected to carry any disease on a long list that includes measles, tuberculosis, epidemic influenza and viral hemorrhage hair hair like Ebola and Marburg.
The Ministry of Agriculture employs insectologists, botanical specialists and fungi scientists – experts in insects, plants and fungi, respectively – who examine agricultural products for pests and pathogens. Many of these specialists were left on Friday.
“We are such a decisive program, it has no meaning.”
The official added: “If we do not work and these inspection operations do not occur, things will begin to accumulate in the ports.”
Animal health experts were particularly anxious about African pig fever, the newly nominal worm, and they were crawling near the United States and could have devastating effects on pork and beef industries.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture said it had made a mistake on many employees working in the outbreak of bird flu in the country and was trying to employ them, according to a report By NBC News. The number of employees who returned to their positions is not clear.
