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The lab's 25 or so full-time employees were put on administrative leave on March 27, forcing it to shut down operations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reinstated more than 400 employees who had previously been laid off, the ...
Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...
Bobby Sherman, a singer and teen idol in the '60s, died of cancer at age 81. (AP) A man charged with supplying chemicals used ...
Lubbock Public Health is facing potential federal cuts to their budget, including a proposed 50% reduction in CDC funding, as ...
Former CDC employees, scientists, and community activists are planning a dramatic protest outside the agency's Clifton campus ...
Agency tells court that states are not suffering "irreparable harm" from cuts even as agency leaders lament "operational disruptions" and "loss of expertise and capacity." ...
Rehiring notices are being sent to laid-off workers — but concerns about the impact on the Black community remain.
“Bringing a few hundred people back to work out of thousands fired is a start, but there are still countless programs at CDC that have been cut, which will lead to increased disease and death,” one of ...
An estimated 200 of the reinstated workers are based in the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, HHS officials confirmed. Staffers at a CDC lab that does ...
There were 10,347 TB cases reported in the U.S. in 2024, or three cases per 100,000 people, according to preliminary CDC data. That's about 8% more cases than in 2023, when cases rose to above pre ...
Cases of TB had consistently been on the decline in the U.S. for nearly three decades but began to rise in 2021, according to the CDC’s latest data shared in 2024.