The Minister of Health Dr. Mekdes Daba emphasized urgent need to strengthen the field epidemiology workforce to effectively ...

Key takeaways: HHS rehired more than 450 people from four CDC divisions. Among those rehired were the staff of the CDC’s STI lab. HHS is rehiring hundreds of people fired from their positions at ...

Staffers at a CDC lab that does testing for sexually transmitted diseases are being brought back, said one CDC employee who wasn't authorized to discuss what happened and spoke to The Associated Press ...

The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts have painted a grim picture of STI surveillance in the wake of the lab's closing.

Addis Abeba- The Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on Sunday confirmed that a case of Mpox has been detected in Moyale town, Oromia region, involving a 27-day-old ...

The same round of layoffs also shut down a CDC lab that tracked antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, often called “super gonorrhea.” In all, 2400 CDC employees were let go, The Post reported.

By Lena H. Sun The Washington Post,Updated April 18, 2025, 11:18 a.m.

RFK Jr.’s cuts to CDC eliminate labs tracking STIs, hepatitis outbreaks The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

The CDC’s 77 staff members who worked on preventing sexually transmitted diseases were also fired, including 49 staff who were embedded in state health departments helping with STI outbreak ...

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.

The U.S. capacity to battle hepatitis B and C has been leveled a devastating blow with the recent closure of the CDC’s premier testing laboratory for viral hepatitis, experts warned.