CDC ordered to immediately stop collaborating with WHO after Trump begins process for US withdrawal

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been ordered to instantly halt each collaborations with the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press. 

The memo was reportedly sent to elder leaders of the bureau by CDC authoritative John Nkengasong connected Sunday, conscionable days aft President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations (UN) agency. 

According to the memo, the stop-work argumentation applied to "all CDC unit engaging with WHO done method moving groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements oregon different means — successful idiosyncratic oregon virtual." Visiting WHO offices besides became prohibited until "further guidance."

FOX News reached retired to the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services for comment, but they did not instantly respond.

TRUMP ORDERS US WITHDRAWAL FROM WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Health officials astatine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based successful Atlanta, Georgia, were told to halt collaborations with the World Health Organization (WHO). (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In an interrogation with the Associated Press, a University of Southern California nationalist wellness adept who collaborates with WHO connected enactment against sexually transmitted infections said the stop-work argumentation whitethorn person large consequences. 

"Stopping communications and meetings with WHO is simply a large problem," Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, who learned astir the memo from idiosyncratic astatine the CDC, said. 

Halting collaborations, which Klausner said could "help america support Americans overseas and astatine home," could impact however the U.S. monitors definite outbreaks. This includes vertebrate flu outbreaks, which reportedly person affected American livestock, caused quality infections, and adjacent raised market prices.

TRUMP OPEN TO CONSIDERING RE-ENTRY INTO WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: 'THEY'D HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP'

The logo and gathering of the World Health Organization (WHO) office successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected April 15, 2020.  (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

"People thought determination would beryllium a dilatory withdrawal. This has truly caught everyone with their pants down," Klausner continued.

According to a White House connection connected America's withdrawal, the WHO demands unfair and dense payments from the U.S. disproportionate to different countries, such arsenic China. 

"China, with a colonisation of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the colonisation of the United States, yet contributes astir 90 percent little to the WHO," the connection said.

President Donald Trump signs enforcement orders successful the Oval Office connected Jan. 20, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. Trump has issued an bid to retreat the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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During a rally successful Downtown Las Vegas connected Saturday, Trump said the U.S. pays $500 cardinal a twelvemonth portion China pays $39 million. However, the imaginable of rejoining the enactment is imaginable if WHO tin "clean it up a bit."

"They offered maine astatine $39 million, they said 'We'll fto you backmost successful for $39 million,' they're going to trim it from [$500 million] to [$39 million], and I turned them down, due to the fact that it became truthful fashionable I didn't cognize if it would beryllium good received adjacent astatine [$39 million], but possibly we would see doing it again, I don’t know, they person to cleanable it up a bit."

FOX News' Alec Schemmel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.