All 28 full-time employees of the lab were fired. STD clinicians and researchers were flummoxed, both because most of the other infectious diseases functions of the CDC were spared in this round ...

The lab has been completely shuttered, compromising the ability of the CDC to track rarer infections. The lab employees were fired as part of a wave of 10,000 layoffs made at the U.S. Department ...

Officials closed the Center for Disease Control’s STD lab and fired all 28 full-time employees. Until recently, the CDC’s STD lab collaborated with the World Health Organization as one of only ...

At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, leaving ...

The lab also conducted testing for new drug-resistant strains of STDs and developed national testing guidelines for diseases including chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. The CDC lab that tests for ...

Here’s the latest: At the CDC’s STD lab, all 28 full-time employees were fired last week, Helen reports. The shuttering of the premiere facility comes at a time when the whole world is down to ...

About 280 were stillborn or died soon after. “Whoever got rid of the lab just doesn’t understand how important the lab is,” said another senior C.D.C. official who spoke on condition of ...