CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP via NBC

The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable.

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The pausing of lab testing comes in the wake of the dramatic downsizing of the CDC in the last year through layoffs, retirements, resignations and the nonrenewal of temporary appointments. Staffing fell by 20% to 25%, according to different estimates, and was felt across the agency — including in the laboratories.

The poxvirus and rabies labs lost about half their prior staff, and the CDC’s malaria branch was gutted even more, according to the National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers that formed in the wake of the downsizing.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pauses-testing-rabies-monkeypox-epstein-barr-viruses-rcna266377

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Damn Trump and Musk and that entire corrupt and phenomenally stupid regime.

[ck4829]

1. Rabies isn't a serious infectious disease, it's a deadly disease

There's no "you just take a week off", or you go on a ventilator, you die. And it's a world of absolute terror as you circle the drain.

[barbtries]

2. motherfuckers.

i hear bondi and gabbard are on the chopping block, but RFKjr is killing people and destroying public health. he needs to go.

[Attilatheblond]

3. GHIP

Gender Has Its Privileges

[ananda]

7. He's a Kennedy. Trump likes him there...

for the same reason he took over the Kennedy Center.

He wants the Kennedy name for himself in a really
bizarre way.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. In his addled brain, he probably thinks he owns "Kennedy"

[ananda]

13. Exactly. It's an image and a brand he wants for himself.

And of course he will bring it down to his own level...

[Attilatheblond]

4. Can't solve a problem? Don't have a clue how to deal with a problem? Don't wanna spend $ on the problem?

Put fingers in ears
Close eyes
Repeat 'La La La LA!

And that's how the GOP rolls.

[johnnyplankton]

5. Am I paranoid or does this just seem like another plank in Putin's plan to completely destroy the U.S.?

With the help of his favorite brain-addled stooge, Evil President Crazypants.

[erronis]

12. That's become my standard "go to" answer for what trump and the repuglicons are doing.

[Spazito]

6. Geez...

Just when I think it couldn't get worse, it does, infinitely worse.

[groundloop]

8. But on a positive note Musk, Bezos, and the other oligarchs are getting richer and paying less in taxes.

[photokat]

9. OH Great

Has RFK Jr survived them all therefore we don't need to study them anymore?

[LeftInTX]

10. Oh brother...rabies? Well, I've heard it all, until I haven't...

[raccoon]

14. It'll be "48 Days Later" (2002) all over again.

[highplainsdem]

16. Do you mean "28 Days Later"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later

[raccoon]

17. Yes. Thank you.

[Bayard]

15. Rabies is a terrible way to die,

For people or animals.