Virologist sounds alarm on aggressive flu season, avian influenza and CDC cuts

Virologist sounds alarm on aggressive flu season, avian influenza and CDC cuts

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows this flu season is the most severe since the 2009 swine flu, reported CBS News earlier this month. Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan, told “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio that fewer people have gotten the flu vaccine this season. Why is the flu spreading? Part of that, Rasmussen said, is due to the CDC stopping a flu …

Fearmongering Alert: HHS Cuts CDC ‘Disease Detectives’ - Liberty Nation News

By John Klar Controversy over efforts to reduce fraud in the federal government roils daily headlines. The latest kerfuffle concerns layoffs of “Epidemic Intelligence Service officers,” or “disease detectives,” as the EIS calls them on its website. The firings followed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as Health and Human  Services secretary by mere hours, leading some Americans to […]

CDC 'Disease Detectives' Fired as Bird Flu Fears Rise

Established in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service is a two-year post-doctoral training program whose officers have been on the front line of investigating outbreaks from the first Ebola cases in Africa in the 1970s to the earliest case reports of COVID-19 in the United States.