from Peter Emmanuelsen

The WHO is now putting out a serious warning that its largest global laboratory network is on the brink of collapsing due to the USA recently pulling out of the organization.

Recently, I reported on how the USA was pulling out of the World Health Organization and how Matteo Salvini of Italy wanted to follow suit.

Now it seems to be having the effect, as the WHO is struggling with funding.

The network led by the WHO is called Global Measles and and Rubella Laboratory Network, known as Gremlin, has some 760 labs all around the world. Why would they call it ”gremlin”? What a weird name…

It turns out the network got a whole lot of money from the USA to be able to operate and got around $8 million from taxpayers in the USA every year.

So what do they do at this ”Gremlin” network?

Well, they focus on detecting measles and rubella, but they also work with ”pandemic preparedness” to detect things such as covid, monkeypox and bird flu.

”The network is at risk of collapse unless alternative funding is identified” said Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the WHO.

See several earlier posts on the WHO —Eds