Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore called the layoffs of federal lead poisoning experts "haphazard" and urged their ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for ...

The Milwaukee Health Department asked for help with the lead poisoning investigation unfolding at Milwaukee Public Schools ...

Although Milwaukee's request for extra staff from the CDC was initially approved, layoffs this month completely shuttered the ...

One of the latest casualties has been the CDC’s lead poisoning response team at the National Center for Environmental Health, ...

The CDC says it can't send teams to help Milwaukee address lead contamination in public schools, but the health department ...

Most of Milwaukee's schools were built before 1978, local health officials said in their initial request to the CDC for help, ...

Commissioner Mike Totoraitis provided more information on Monday, April 14 regarding the CDC’s denial of MHD’s Epi-Aid ...

Officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention denied Milwaukee Public Schools officials' request for help with ...

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, ...

The CDC is blaming the loss of its lead experts because of mass firings from last week across federal health agencies.

In Milwaukee’s case, the city requested the CDC’s help March 26 with the investigation of lead exposure in its public schools, after the health department identified hazardous levels of lead ...