The same round of layoffs also shut down a CDC lab that tracked antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, often called “super gonorrhea.” In all, 2,400 CDC employees were let go, The Post reported. CDC labs ...

Funded by local, state, and federal budgets, public health labs perform tests that serve the public interest and may be too ...

The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.

A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the U.S. has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs. All 28 full-time employees, along with 10 fellows ...

The loss of the CDC’s viral hepatitis lab will leave the country with no good way to measure the scale of the problem it faces with these diseases, they suggested, and less able to find the ...

But if anyone could understand what was happening in Florida, it would be the Division of Viral Hepatitis in the CDC's headquarters. Using samples from the laboratory's collection of nearly 1 ...

CDC labs have played a key role in tracking outbreaks of hepatitis C, a viral disease that can cause serious liver damage. Outbreaks in recent years have been tied to dialysis facilities ...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral ...