A CDC official, John Nkengasong, MSc, PhD, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop thei
The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.
A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.
TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been told to stop communication with the World Health Organization (WHO), in the wake of President Donald Trump's order withdrawing from the health agency.
Trump has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been ordered to immediately stop engaging with the World Health Organization, a move that affects critical work on influenza surveillance and disease outbreaks across the globe,
A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-led study identifies three clusters of post-COVID multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) based on the frequency of respiratory symptoms, frequency of shock and cardiac complications, and clinical severity.
President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in 2022, Weldon will need to be confirmed by the Senate before starting in the position.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released some new flu data to the public, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.
The Trump Administration has frozen many federal health agencies’ communications with the public until at least the end of the month.
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.