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More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain ...
All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.
The CDC has said that the strain Tulane was studying in its high-containment laboratory in Covington, La., is known as Strain 1026b. It was originally recovered from a rice farmer who was sickened ...
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.
The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.
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.
In the CDC's STD testing lab, one official said that normally around 12,000 samples are processed and analyzed by the agency's scientists every year.
All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.
All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.