Funding cuts could harm global efforts to fight tuberculosis, WHO warns
The WHO warned Wednesday that massive funding cuts, especially from the United States, could harm humanitarian efforts ...
CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington
The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs ...
Column: Silencing the CDC and leaving the WHO puts Virginia in danger
Pulling out of the World Health Organization and silencing the CDC puts Virginians at risk, Jessica Loring, a nurse ...
Tuberculosis investigation expands to second school in Darlington County, officials say
The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) is expanding tuberculosis (TB) testing to include a small group in a ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington
The terminated CDC employees helped prevent and respond to ... he contacted newly arrived immigrants and refugees potentially at risk of spreading TB in hopes of getting them into the city ...