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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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Why US government wants CDC to stop adding fluoride to drinking water
US health secretary RFK Jr. wants to stop the decades-long fluoridation practice of drinking water due to various health ...
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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica ... long-standing public health messages could be silenced. On the day in February that the world learned that an unvaccinated child had died of measles in ...
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Former CDC worker speaks out after latest round of layoffs
One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into public health to help marginalized communities. Olansky did that through tracking HIV outbreaks at the CDC in Atlanta.