Among those laid off include all 50 first-year officers of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service ... An Ebola outbreak has also been reported in Africa. America and the world are in desperate ...

"The country is less safe," Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program, told CBS News.

Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to reverse plans for devastating cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence ... of the CDC’s ability ...

In total, nearly 1,300 CDC employees -- roughly 10 percent of the agency's workforce -- were dismissed, according to CBS News. "The Epidemic Intelligence Service is one of the most storied and ...

In total, nearly 1,300 CDC employees ... of the elite Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Founded in 1951, the EIS has been on the frontlines of major outbreaks, from smallpox eradication efforts to ...

Editors’ note: As of Monday, Feb. 17, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service program who had been warned they were to be fired had not received termination letters. The Trump ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were apparently spared by the cuts made over the ...

Many of the members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service ... Public Health Service and military officers who had been on the CDC staff before entering the program. A typical class contains ...

The African Union has finally approved the operational framework for the new Africa Epidemics Fund — three years after ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and Global Health European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3 ...