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Workers laid off from CDC gather at Capitol to urge Georgia officials to defend them
Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the ...
Today marks 5 years since Georgia’s first COVID-19 cases were confirmed
ATLANTA — It’s been exactly five years on Sunday since the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Georgia. The cases were ...
State representatives and healthcare advocates rally against layoffs at Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Roughly 700 employees are believed to be impacted by the layoffs mandated by the current administration's Department of ...
A Trump Siege at the C.D.C. and Atlanta’s ‘Global Health Capital’
The cluster of medical facilities in the city around Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Respiratory viruses continue to circulate throughout Georgia
As Atlanta and Georgia enter the end of the traditional winter respiratory illness season, there are still signs that ...
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Georgia’s vaccination rate too low to fully protect against spread of measles, health officials say
At a press conference last Friday, infectious disease expert Dr. Katrina Kretsinger warned that Georgia’s vaccination rate is ...
Here’s what Georgia residents need to know about the measles outbreak
Robert Bednarczyk, a professor of global health at Emory University, warns that measles can find and infect the most ...
DPH, DNR decline to investigate unusually high thyroid cancer cases in NE Georgia. Some state legislators are pushing back.
Thyroid cancer cases in Union, Lumpkin, Hall, White, Habersham, and Rabun counties have been about double or more the national average over the past decade.
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Flu cases decline in Georgia and Atlanta as Covid rises slightly
After a second surge of flu hospitalization earlier in February, federal and Georgia data indicate the spread is slowing down ...
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5 hospitalized with cardiac and neurological symptoms after getting chikungunya vaccine
Five people have been hospitalized with cardiac and neurological symptoms after getting the chikungunya vaccine.