CDC Budget Cuts Could Put Agency at Risk

March 4, 2012

March 5, 2012 | President Obama's cuts in CDC funding could spell disaster for the agency. The CDC has had its overall budget cut by 20% since 2010. Some of the cuts are meant to be made up by other government spending, but some of those sources' budgets are not yet approved by Congress. “We are reaching the tipping point where preparedness efforts are going to be reversed because of the lack of funding,” says Crystal Franco, an associate with the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC in Baltimore, Maryland. Nature