U.S. CDC and NIH staff are reeling under Trump-Musk cuts in work force.

Staff at CDC and NIH are reeling as Trump administration cuts workforce As many as 1,300 probationary employees at CDC and 1,500 at NIH are losing their jobs. Many fear for the future of public health and scientific research. NPR

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At the CDC, the cuts also hit the Epidemic Intelligence Service officer corps, where all those in the first year of their service were laid off, one of the CDC employees said. Members of the services, whom the CDC calls "disease detectives," are often dispatched to investigate disease outbreaks and public health threats in the U.S. and overseas.

"CDC is the health warning system for the United States," says Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of Your Local Epidemiologist. "CDC needs change, but doing it so drastically and so aggressively with an axe instead of a scalpel is incredibly dangerous to the biosecurity in the United States."

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