HHS and its agencies "help health care providers and the public learn about and respond to public health incidents and threats, including outbreaks of infectious diseases," including bird flu, dengue, measles and other diseases, according to the resolution text.

Two planned events have been indefinitely postponed as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on HHS-related mass communications and public appearances.

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.