WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Jack Reed issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jack Reed criticized the Trump Administration's cuts to key federal public health programs, noting that a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an international cruise ship that infected Americans who are now repatriated highlights the risks of slashing funding for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), and eliminating federal inspectors and port health workers who should be on the frontlines of tracking this virus and keeping deadly diseases off cruise ships and out of the United States.
"I don't want people to be worried, but I do want the U.S....