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CDC Vaccines Chief Says Every Single Vaccine Should Be Optional
The Trump-appointed head of the federal panel that recommends vaccines is saying that polio and measles vaccines—and perhaps every…
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CDC studies show value of nationwide wastewater disease surveillance, as potential funding cut looms
Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors,…
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“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
But the experiment’s protocols not only legitimize those concerns, they raise them. Inside Medicine found that there’s no placebo in the…
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RFK Jr. Personally Changed CDC Policy on Linking Vaccines and Autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its long-held…
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JD Vance’s Best Defense for CDC Layoff Chaos Is ... Blame Democrats
The White House’s government shutdown blame game isn’t turning out to be a very effective cross-topic strategy. Speaking with CBS News’s…
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Former CDC Head: RFK Jr. Is Bringing Back Preventable Diseases
“She had been in prison for many many years, and she had offered to speak on many many occasions, and she was never given that…
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This Is Why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fired the CDC Director
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave Susan Monarez two worrisome ultimatums before she was fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control and…
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RFK Jr. Makes Up Batshit Reason for Why CDC Director Was Fired
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave an absolutely vexing answer to a basic question on why he fired Center for…
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Famous Liar RFK Jr. Accuses Ousted CDC Director of Lying
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that Susan Monarez, the ousted head of the Centers for Disease Control…
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Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to President Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago.…
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Trump Picks Nightmare Peter Thiel Acolyte to Replace CDC Director
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next…
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CDC Official Makes Shocking Confession About RFK Jr.’s Intel
On Thursday evening, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis—who recently resigned from a high-level role at the Centers for Disease Control—revealed a…
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White House’s Argument on Ousted CDC Director Gets More Unbelievable
Then came the Q&A portion, beginning with a question about whether Moore believes consumers pay for Trump’s tariffs. “So, right now, what…
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Now We Know Why RFK Jr. Wanted to Fire This CDC Director
Stunningly, the lawsuit also names Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors as defendants. Trump on Monday fired…
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Top CDC Officials Quit With Dire Warning on “Eugenics” Under RFK Jr.
The outgoing officials are Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization…
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CDC Director Remarkably Ousted After Less Than a Month on the Job
The Defense Department lost the most workers—more than 55,000 federal civilian employees were given the chop, HuffPost reported. The…
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CDC Doesn’t Seem to Think Foodborne Illnesses Are a Thing Anymore
The U.S. is not monitoring foodborne illnesses like it used to. As of last month, the only federal-state partnership responsible for…
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Posts misidentify CDC headquarters shooter
Posts are claiming police identified the shooter who killed an officer near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day
Hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the Department of Health and Human Services would not undergo a staff purge, it did. The…
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Waffle House adds 50 cent egg surcharge amid bird flu crisis
Waffle House, the popular Georgia-based restaurant chain with over 2,000 locations across 25 states, has implemented a temporary 50 cent…
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CDC scrubs research databases referencing sexual orientation and gender identity
Websites on HPV vaccinations, data on high schoolers’ health habits, information on programs to end violence against women and girls: all…
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HMPV symptoms as China faces new outbreak
Chinese state media has reported a rise in cases of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV), though officials in the United States have not…
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Cruise ship norovirus outbreaks make hundreds of people sick
There's been a dramatic increase in gastrointestinal illnesses aboard cruise ships in recent weeks—and norovirus is to blame for most of…
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Norovirus outbreaks: Doctors' advice amid major surge in illness
As a severe outbreak of norovirus, also known as the stomach flu, spreads across the United States, doctors have shared advice with…