Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is demanding to know how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to comply with ...

The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E. coli illnesses from contaminated ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks ...

There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment ...

To put that in perspective, the case fatality rate of COVID-19 is 1.1%. In 2024, the CDC reported 4,514 cases of C. auris infection in patients of all ages — nine times larger than that seen in ...

While she is new to the CDC, she is an accomplished public servant, having worked in several other agencies over the course of her career. After having already cut nearly 10% of the CDC’s ...

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp.

He is former director of the CDC and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. The CDC cuts announced Tuesday threaten America’s health, safety, and economy. Despite claims of ...

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The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today. Hundreds of people who worked for the office have ...

All of the workers in the CDC's FOIA office were cut, two officials said. Two-thirds of the Food and Drug Administration's records request staff were also cut, down to 50 remaining. "Most still ...

ATLANTA — Former employees are rallying outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after layoffs on Tuesday. One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into ...