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CDC disease detectives exempted from Trump hiring freeze
Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.
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Former CDC staff warn of 'a five-alarm fire'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff ...
Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee
The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of ...
Trump nixes CDC infectious disease advisory committee: Report
The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three ...
CDC Issues Measles Update as Number of Cases Grows
There have been 1,001 confirmed cases of measles across 31 states and jurisdictions as of May 8, the CDC said in its Friday update. The affected states and one city ...
Federal cuts put CDC's IVF clinic monitoring system in question: HealthLink
A local fertility clinic and patients remark on the impacts such cuts could have on people seeking infertility treatments ...
Democratic senators ask Trump administration to rehire CDC IVF team
A group of more than a dozen Democratic senators is asking the Trump administration to rehire a team of scientists at the ...
Florida whooping cough cases nearly double from this time last year, CDC says
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is on the rise again in the United States, and the number of cases in 2025 are nearly double ...
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Amid the Milwaukee lead crisis, a laid-off CDC scientist volunteered his expertise. It wasn’t so simple
After his job was cut, a CDC scientist volunteered to help Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis in its public schools. For ...