Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease

ATLANTA (AP) — CDC researchers are being forced to skip a pivotal conference on infectious disease this week due to the ...

Why the CDC’s chaos is putting American health at risk

America's top disease control agency, the CDC, is in disarray. Hundreds of staff face repeated firings and rehirings amid ...
STAT

CDC’s vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It pains Rochelle Walensky, former director of ...

The disaster at the CDC, explained by its former boss

The consequences of the CDC’s gutting will be diffuse, given the agency’s many different functions, and they could take some time to materialize. Public health trends are measured in decades, not in ...
MedPage Today on MSN

Meet the Grassroots CDC Teams Fighting Against Firings

CDC Alumni and Friends has coordinated rallies outside of CDC campuses every week since Feb. 18 -- except for the 2 weeks after a gunman shot at the CDC campus -- to show support for employees. It has ...

CDC’s ability to prevent injuries like drowning, traumatic brain injury and falls is severely compromised by Trump cuts

Preventable injuries and deaths kill more Americans in the first half of life than any other cause, including cancer. Yet the ...
Homeland Security Today

Ebola: CDC to Require Airlines to Collect Contact Information from Passengers from DRC and Guinea

Chief lab technician Boré Kaliva at the Prefecture Hospital in Yomou, Guinea, demonstrates the use of the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) for Ebola virus in 2016. (Alaine Kathryn Knipes/CDC) Starting ...