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The USAID Emergency Waivers Aren’t Working, From Ebola to AIDS
The CDC did not respond to requests for comment. Other lifesaving USAID programs ostensibly granted humanitarian waivers have encountered similar ...

CDC Posts First Bird Flu Update Since Trump Took Office
The CDC posted a bird flu update to the health agency’s website on Wednesday, the first since President Donald Trump ...

Amid worst U.S. flu season in decades, RFK Jr.-led CDC pulls vaccine campaign
Last season’s flu vaccine prevented 9.8 million illnesses and 7,900 deaths nationwide, the CDC says. Read More

Nearly 1,300 CDC employees are being forced out as Trump demands the agency rid itself of all probationary employees
“That sort of slash-and-burn approach is what will cause continued disruptions in our understanding of diseases,” one expert said. Read ...

Experts sound the alarm as Ohio farm worker’s bird flu sparks fear it’s the next pandemic
Prior to this latest case, 68 people in 11 states had been infected with an H5 strain of avian influenza. ...

Experts warn flu season hasn’t peaked yet, and will get worse before it gets better
At least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 influenza-linked deaths—including 57 children—have plagued the U.S. this season. Read More

CDC, Other Health Agencies Ordered to Restore Web Pages Removed Under Trump Directive
The Trumpification of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies is not going completely unopposed. ...

The U.S. is battling its worst flu season in at least 28 years. Here are the latest symptoms and where cases are skyrocketing
If you’re feeling under the weather but brushing it off as just a cold, you might consider taking a flu ...

Judge tells CDC, FDA to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order
A federal judge has ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to ...

New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’
Dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, ...