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Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

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, U.S. shutters ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The US CDC has suspended diagnostic testing for approximately 30 infectious diseases, including rabies and mpox, based on a list of temporarily unavailable tests on the CDC website. The reasons for ...

Demonstrators protest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention layoffs in front of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) NEW ...

The federal government's disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses. Senate ...

ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suffered significant losses in its Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) program due to federal layoffs, according to the Associated ...

The CDC announced Thursday that the organization is currently investigating how one of its laboratory workers could have become infected with Salmonella while conducting lab work involving the ...