The CDC seemed to defy the will of President Donald Trump by participating this week in a vaccine meeting with the World Health Organization.
Under executive orders, the CDC was banned to communicate from whom the US started with the withdrawal of the Global Health Agency.
Trump mentioned the shortcomings of the UN agency during Covid Close ties with China as reasons for removing the US from the WHO.
But a spokesperson for the CDC told DailyMail.com -members of the organization 'will actively participate in a WHO conference on flu vaccines this week.
The weekly meeting started on Monday in London, with leaders of both the CDC and the FDA present. Neither of the agencies has publicly announced their plans to attend.
But the two government agencies should probably request an exemption from the Trump government because of the ban on all communication with the WHO.
Twice a year, who organizes consultations with an advisory group of experts to analyze worldwide flu data, with recommendations that have been spent on the composition of vaccines for the next flu season.
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These recommendations are used by vaccine regulating authorities and pharmaceutical companies to develop, produce and licensed flu vaccines over the course of a few months.
This week's meeting will be held in the Francis Crick Institute in London, while the next meeting will take place in September.
Health experts feared that the absence of America in the meeting could lead to less effective flu vaccines.
Trump gave an executive order to start the process of withdrawing the US in January, but that did not have an immediate effect.
Leave who requires the approval of the congress and that the US meets its financial obligations for the current financial year. The US must also provide a cancellation period of one year.
His administration also told federal health authorities to stop most communication with the public until the end of the month.
“Stopping communication and meetings with whom is a big problem,” said Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a University of Public Health of South California who cooperates with WHO working against sexually transmitted diseases.
“People thought there would be a slow withdrawal. Everyone really put this with their pants, “said Klausner, who said he heard about it from someone at CDC.
“Talking with who is a two -way street,” he added and noted that the two agencies benefit from each other's expertise.
The collaboration enables the US to learn about new tests, new treatments and emerging outbreaks – information 'that can help us protect Americans abroad and at home, “said Klausner.
Susan Coller Monarez is an American health scientist who is deputy -adjunct director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC describes almost 30 people who and sends many millions of dollars through cooperative agreements.
The American agency also has some of the world's leading experts in infectious diseases and threats of public health, and the employees of the two agencies have daily contact in the field of health hazards and how they can stop.
The collaboration is not the only global health effect of the executive orders of Trump.
In another step, the president froze the expenditure for another critical program, Pepfar or the Emergency Plan of the President for AIDS exemption.
The anti-HIV program is credited by saving 25 million lives, including those of 5.5 million children, because it was started by Republican President George W. Bush. It was included in a freezing of Trump administration for the expenditure for foreign aid that is planned for at least three months.
Pepfar offers HIV medication to more than 20 million people and stops his financing essential with their HIV treatment, “said International Aids Society President Beatriz Grinsztejn in a statement. “If that happens, people will die and HIV will come up.”
