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With the U.S. Agency for International Development putting foreign aid workers on leave, some health experts are sounding the alarm about what it could mean here at home.
“All you need is a person to get on a plane with drug resistant TB, and that's very transmissible and very difficult to treat,” said Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer of nonprofit Partners in Health, which helps treat infectious disease around the world.
Health clinics, clean drinking water and food assistance for people in poverty are some of the many global projects...
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