TORONTO — A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency.

Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis.

He says losing the large amount of funding the U.S. provides would threaten public health around the world, including in Canada.

Pai says if there is a major disease outbreak and the U.S. isn't looped into the worldwide response, it would spread -- likely into Canada.{ai:summary}<p>A Canadian global health specialist reports that WHO staff are "devastated" by Trump's order to withdraw U.S. funding. Dr. Madhukar Pai warns that this loss could jeopardize global public health efforts, including those in Canada, particularly in areas like tuberculosis. #health</p>

U.S. pulling out of WHO a threat to public health around the world, including Canada: doctor

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