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How the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service protects public health at home and abroad
When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control ...
Emergency rooms treat a gunshot wound every half-hour
U.S. emergency room doctors treat a gunshot wound every half-hour, a new study has found. What's more, firearm injuries ...
A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health ...
CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for ...
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Flu epidemic expected to end late March
CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) told a regular news briefing. The most common respiratory pathogen in the community is the flu virus, with the majority being ...
Opinion
CDC ‘disease detectives’ save lives. Cutting them will cost us (Your Letters)
Idea to put battery-powered lights in World Trade Center stairwells saved thousands on 9/11. It wouldn't have happened without the Epidemic Intelligence Service, writes an alumnus.