Key Takeaways Layoffs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included all 27 staff at the viral hepatitis ...

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 ...

But if anyone could understand what was happening in Florida, it would be the Division of Viral Hepatitis in the CDC's headquarters. Using samples from the laboratory's collection of nearly 1 ...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral ...

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 ...

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted. In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak ...