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Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak


The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue

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