{"id":38593,"date":"2025-04-12T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/tuberculosis-could-end-if-theres-more-us-public-health-funding-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:26:56","slug":"tuberculosis-could-end-if-theres-more-us-public-health-funding-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/tuberculosis-could-end-if-theres-more-us-public-health-funding-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis could end if there\u2019s more US public health funding, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/tuberculosis\">tuberculosis<\/a> outbreaks pick up speed in the US and abroad amid deep cuts in funding for local, state and international public health programs, a resurgence of the deadliest infectious disease \u2013 including drug-resistant tuberculosis \u2013 could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing funding for public health responses could end tuberculosis (TB) altogether, says James Brookes, an IT specialist from Idaho, who told this to his representatives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/12\/tuberculosis-public-health-funding-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts As tuberculosis outbreaks pick up speed in the US and abroad amid deep cuts in funding for local, state and international public health programs, a resurgence of the deadliest infectious disease \u2013 including drug-resistant tuberculosis \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Tuberculosis could end if there\u2019s more US public health funding, experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/tuberculosis-could-end-if-theres-more-us-public-health-funding-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tuberculosis could end if there\u2019s more US public health funding, experts say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}