Experts say slashed funding and growing misinformation are some of the greatest challenges facing public health<\/p>\n
The hantavirus outbreak, while unlikely to spark the next big pandemic, is shining a spotlight on the ways public health has deteriorated in the US: its ability to test for rare diseases, its expertise on outbreak prevention and response, its ability to battle misinformation and restore trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cAssuming everything goes well in containing this outbreak, which I hope it does, the takeaway from that should not be \u2018we\u2019re fine,\u2019\u201d said Stephanie Psaki, former White House global health security coordinator. \u201cWe\u2019re not ready for this type of threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
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