President Donald Trump on May 5 issued a formal directive pausing all federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential, particularly in adversarial nations such as China and Iran. In an Executive Order called “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” Trump said GoF research on biological agents has […]
Pandemics
MPox: What’s Really Happening
The World Health Organization (WHO) acted as expected this week and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. […]