Nigeria, Sept. 8 -- The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that the public health excellence of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must be protected.

In a post on X on Sunday, Mr Ghebreyesus described the CDC as a global centre of excellence whose practices have inspired the establishment of similar public health bodies around the world.

"When I was Ethiopia's Health Minister, I sent a team to Atlanta to learn from the US CDC, and a significant part of what the Ethiopian Public Health Agency does is based on these best practices," he said.

"The establishment of the Africa CDC, which I proposed at the African Union summit in Abuja in 2013 when I was Foreign Minist...