STOCKHOLM — In both the United States and Europe, two public health agencies aim to fight the spread of infectious diseases.
But the Trump administration’s rapidly evolving approach to public health prevention has highlighted stark and growing differences in their approaches.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was born out of efforts to eliminate malaria in the U.S. in the 1940s, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, a multicountry partnership established in 2004 and based in Stockholm, was driven by responding to the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
