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CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...
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Former CDC Director Tom Frieden: Cuts to the agency will cost American lives and dollars
The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these ...
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CDC cuts threaten to set back the nation’s health, critics say
Most of the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, which studies maternal health, was also shuttered. Whether some or all of ...
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Tr*mp admin shuts down CDC’s top lab for STI research as threat of drug-resistant gonorrhea grows
Staff say equipment was left running and samples continue to arrive from across the US following the sudden closure.
WHO warns that rumors and misinformation about health can kill
Amid a growing measles outbreak in the U.S., the World Health Organization is speaking out about misinformation and the ...
Nearly 500 cases of measles reported across 19 states: CDC
The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 400 cases amid reports of some children ...
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‘It’s a completely different world’: Ex-CDC comms director on the future of public health messaging
CDC deputy director of public affairs Nina Witkofsky is serving as acting director of communications following Griffis’ exit. The CDC is the national public health agency of the U.S. Headquartered in ...