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

HHS is rehiring hundreds of people fired from their positions at the CDC during initial government downsizing efforts earlier this year, the department confirmed to Healio.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The lab firings were part of the 2,400 staff laid off from the CDC. While officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have said the job reductions are aimed at refocusing the agency “on ...

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.

HHS layoffs last week gutted a CDC lab dedicated to tracking STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. The lab is only one of three in the world that performs this function. The Trump ...