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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nash is a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health. Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to reverse plans for ...

“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the United States and around the world,” according to the website, which retains ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to slash the federal civil service will hit one of the crown jewels of global public health on Friday. Many of the members of the Epidemic Intelligence ...

Multiple outlets reported that a larger sister program at CDC called the Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS, known as the agency’s “disease detectives,” was expected to be cut ...

A measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has grown to 208 confirmed cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention March 4 announced it sent agency experts to Texas to assist local officials in responding to the state’s measles outbreak.

Many members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, EIS—a globally revered public health training program—were informed earlier Friday that they were about to be fired, according to ...