Data from CDC surveillance indicates stray animal interactions result in 3x higher antibiotic requirements than domestic pet incidents. Proper classification guides treatment urgency and preventive ...

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, one of the CDC officials overseeing the work group on COVID-19 vaccines, resigned last week after Kennedy ordered edits to the CDC's recommendations to exclude ...

Many protesters called for the appointment of a new CDC director and the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rehiring about 460 employees who had previously been laid off, according to an email notice reviewed by The Hill. The Department of Health ...

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 ...

The cuts slash the CDC's budget from nearly $9.2 billion in FY 2024 to $4.2 billion. At least 20%, or $1 billion, of the funding cut is moving to AHA. The cuts will have a trickle-down effect on ...

In the original cuts HHS announced in late March, the CDC's workforce decreased by approximately 2,400 employees. Officials have previously said any rehiring would come with additional firings to ...

That reorganization, directed in part by the U.S. DOGE Service, has seen the department downsized from approximately 80,000 employees to 60,000, with some of the deepest cuts to the CDC, the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed 17 members of a CDC vaccine advisory committee. Kennedy Jr. cited restoring public trust as the reason for the dismissals, despite his history of ...

CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.

Kennedy’s new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines, spread misinformation Dr. Robert Malone, one of Kennedy’s appointees, at a barn on his horse farm July 22, 2020, in ...

With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices It’s unclear if the move results from bureaucratic dysfunction or is an effort to replace ACIP ...