The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.

On February 13, the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services in a narrow 52-48 vote.

Anne Schuchat, a former principal deputy director at the CDC, said she would be concerned if there was political oversight of scientific material: “Suppressing information is potentially ...

"The country is less safe. These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika," Dr. Anne Schuchat, an EIS alum and former principal deputy director of the ...

“The country is less safe,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, an alumna of the disease research program, told CBS. “These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika.