CDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump administration job cuts
Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump ...
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Alarm spreads over impacts of Trump cuts to Atlanta-based CDC, public health community
Health experts and Georgia Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the ...
Americans may have had bird flu and not even know it, new study suggests
A new report suggests that more Americans may be walking around with bird flu − and not even know it. Researchers from the ...
CDC says person diagnosed with new mpox variant in New York is in isolation
The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York ...
5 years since COVID declared public health emergency in US, still killing thousands
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. declaring a public health emergency over COVID-19, people continue to lose their lives.
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As bird flu spreads, CDC recommends faster 'subtyping' to catch more cases
In an HHS media briefing on Thursday, the CDC confirmed that the public risk for avian flu is still low, but is being closely monitored. The agency spokesperson clarified that this accelerated ...
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Amid H5N1, CDC Wants Faster Influenza A Subtyping for Hospitalized Cases
Opens in a new tab or window Share on Bluesky ... Nirav Shah, MD, JD, principal deputy director of the CDC, said during a press briefing on Thursday that, currently, patients hospitalized with ...
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CDC urges faster testing to find human bird flu cases
By the time those results come back, patients have often already been sent home, Dr. Nirav Shah, the CDC’s principal deputy director, said during a media briefing Thursday. That could hinder ...