Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...
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Scheduled meeting of CDC vaccine advisers postponed
The postponement comes amid concerns that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, could make changes ...
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Health commissioner: Communication with CDC ‘halted completely’ in first weeks of Trump term
The city’s line of communication with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was severed in the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to Health Commissioner Michelle ...
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America’s Flu Crisis Is a Public Health Disaster in the Making
Nearly every state is reporting high or very high flu activity, with roughly 32% of tests coming back positive and some areas ...
CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
In 2024, the CDC worked with the WHO to respond to a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda that lasted for several months. On average, about half of people infected with Marburg virus do not survive, so ...
The US is leaving the World Health Organization. What does that mean for Illinois?
The U.S. is pulling the plug on its membership with the World Health Organization. What does that mean for Illinois?
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New York’s public health system is largely protected from national level changes. Here’s why.
A lot is unfolding at the national level of public health, including the recent firing of about 1,300 federal health agency ...
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Bird Flu Looms as Trump’s Mass Firings Unleash Chaos at Public Health Agencies
Trump and RFK Jr. have moved to fire thousands of highly trained employees at the CDC and other agencies since Friday.
RFK Jr. will have a vast global reach at Health and Human Services
In confirmation hearings for his nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the focus was on ...
CDC says person diagnosed with new mpox variant in New York is in isolation
The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York ...
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President’s health communication 'pause' affects CT, US
By Dawn Attride for Sentient Climate. Broadcast version by Edwin J. Viera for Connecticut News Service reporting for the ...