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Whooping cough cases have doubled in a year, CDC data shows
Whooping cough cases are more than double those seen at the same time last year, with 8,064 cases recorded nationwide so far ...
CDC and California offer $25 gift cards to encourage bird flu testing
Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...
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What's at Stake if CDC's Infection Control Practices Committee Is Cut
Hospitals are required to have antibiotic stewardship programs and infection control policies consistent with CDC/HICPAC ...
Oversight Democrat questions how CDC can provide public records without staffers
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, is demanding to know how the ...
House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
U.S. births barely rise in 2024, CDC reports
Women in their 20s are also having fewer children. Births among women ages 20 to 24 fell from about 106 per 1,000 in 2007 to ...
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CDC cuts hit HIV prevention program, jeopardizing decades of progress on reducing infant transmission rates
Research published by Margaret Lampe, a CDC epidemiologist, found that from 1994 to 2020, the number of HIV transmissions to babies was cut by 97%, largely through pregnant women with the disease ...
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.