CDC workers fired from prominent STI, hepatitis labs are rehired The moves are part of a broader tranche of agency reversals David Goldman/AP By Helen Branswell June 16, 2025 ...

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 ...

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to overhaul the CDC and FDA, here are the vaccine schedules that experts ...

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.

HealthDay News — Key labs at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down amid recent layoffs, raising concerns about tracking and controlling serious infections like ...

MONDAY, April 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Key labs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down amid recent layoffs, raising concerns about tracking and ...

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 ...

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