ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 8, 2025 (ENS) – A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed. One person has died. […]

Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices last month, according to current and former CDC employees.

The CDC expects roughly 11,000 to show up at its Atlanta offices daily. That will include about 5,800 at the Roybal Campus near Emory.

The first gathering in Atlanta of the "Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices" under Donald Trump's new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was canceled. This is a serious concern for Dr.

Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Friday to put a face on the mass terminations and demand that state officials speak up for them with the Trump administration.

An email demand over the weekend to all federal employees, including those at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for a list of work accomplishments in the past week has led to chaos across the government workforce.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 8, 2025 (ENS) – A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed. One person has died. […]

A new low-cost sensor that detects airborne H5N1 avian flu in under five minutes sounds mighty good as bird flu continues to spread, infecting 70 people in the United States in the past 11 months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has confirmed.

It’s been exactly five years on Sunday since the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Georgia. The cases were announced on March 2, 2020, almost six weeks after Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first U.

With 180 more people now being told they can return, the actual number of CDC employees terminated so far would seem to stand somewhere around 550. But federal health officials haven’t confirmed any specifics.

About 180 CDC employees received emails allowing them to return to work after being laid off. The reinstatement follows widespread job cuts under the Trump administration. The total number of CDC terminations remains unclear,