"Deepening uncertainty" over whether the US will be able to respond effectively to the next big outbreak "keeps infectious disease specialists up at night", an expert has warned.
Physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Kent Sepkowitz, made the dire warning in an op-ed for CNN.
He said it wasn't the specifics of the next disease to hit that worried epidemiologists but instead the country's ability to respond.
