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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. After Hurricane Ian, as ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

An internal memo provided to Capital B Atlanta by a CDC employee appears to show a list of agency departments and divisions that were downsized on Tuesday. In addition to divisions related to ...

The effect was felt across the CDC, as workers in the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), the Division of Population Health, the Division of HIV Prevention, the Division ...

Measles cases are most likely being underreported in the United States, according to a senior scientist at the CDC. So far in 2025, 747 cases have been recorded in the U.S. with about three ...

However, the CDC is continuing the inspections under the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), according to a statement by an agency spokesperson to Food Safety News. “This work has not stopped ...

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 ...