Daily Mail News – Health
By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 22:39 EDT, 9 May 2025 | Updated: 23:07 EDT, 9 May 2025
Many celebrated when President Donald Trump signed a new executive order this week restricting research that could trigger the next pandemic.
The order banned US funds from being used to sponsor research abroad known as ‘gain-of-function’, when pathogens are deliberately made more infectious or deadly.
‘It’s a big deal’, said the President, while putting pen to paper in a White House briefing Monday, ‘It could have been that we wouldn’t have had the problem we had if we had this done earlier’.