The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

Training program participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

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.

In an unanticipated move, the CDC has issued an email to 180 of its recently laid-off employees, instructing them to resume their former roles and work schedules. The email, marked with the urgent subject line "read this email immediately,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are frantically trying to bring in hundreds of workers fired in a mass Trump administration purge back into work, reported The Associated Press on Wednesday.

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it’s partnering with the Texas Department of State Health Services.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on the ground in Texas to aid the state in tamping down a measles outbreak, the agency said Tuesday. The agency in a statement on the social