Editing Bioterrorism (section)

=== 2017 U.S. budget proposal affecting bioterrorism programs ===
President Donald Trump promoted his first budget around keeping America safe. However, one aspect of defense would receive less money: "protecting the nation from deadly pathogens, man-made or natural," according to ''The New York Times''. Agencies tasked with biosecurity get a decrease in funding under the Administration's budget proposal.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/us/politics/biosecurity-trump-budget-defense.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/28/us/politics/biosecurity-trump-budget-defense.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited|title=Trump's Proposed Budget Cuts Trouble Bioterrorism Experts|last=Baumgaertner|first=Emily|date=May 28, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 30, 2017 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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* The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response would be cut by $136&nbsp;million, or 9.7 percent. The office tracks outbreaks of [[disease]].
* The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases would be cut by $65&nbsp;million, or 11 percent. The center is a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fights threats like anthrax and the [[Ebola virus]], and additionally towards research on HIV/AIDS vaccines.
* Within the [[National Institutes of Health]], the [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] (NIAID) would lose 18 percent of its budget. NIAID oversees responses to Zika, Ebola and [[HIV/AIDS]] vaccine research.
"The next [[weapon of mass destruction]] may not be a bomb," Lawrence O. Gostin, the director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights, told ''The New York Times''. "It may be a tiny pathogen that you can't see, smell or taste, and by the time we discover it, it'll be too late."<ref name=":2" />