ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suffered significant losses in its Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) program due to federal layoffs, according to the Associated ...

KFF Health News reported Aug. 21 that the organization planned to overhaul its lab operations after mishaps with its COVID-19 test. The CDC’s Laboratory Workgroup — a panel of lab researchers, public ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses. The ...

In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state's public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected ...

The CDC plans to overhaul its lab operations after mishaps with its COVID-19 test, KFF Health News reported Aug. 21. The CDC’s Laboratory Workgroup — a panel of lab researchers, public health ...

Lab technicians may have been working with live Ebola virus. This undated file image made available by the CDC shows the Ebola Virus. — -- Lab workers at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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