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Recent layoffs stop CDC from helping with lead contamination at Milwaukee schools
Officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention denied Milwaukee Public Schools officials' request for help with ...
RFK Jr.'s cuts to CDC lead poisoning team bring efforts to help tribes, health departments to a standstill
Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...
CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for ...
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CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention effectively eliminated
The CDC division responsible for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention has been effectively eliminated as part of the ...
A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health ...
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Staff working on childhood lead exposure and cancer clusters fired from CDC
This division works on issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning and cancer clusters ... cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
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CDC can't help MPS and Milwaukee Health Department with lead crisis
The city of Milwaukee Health Department requested the CDC's help March 26 with the investigation of lead exposure in ...
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Recent layoffs stop CDC from helping with lead contamination at Milwaukee schools
April 12 (UPI) --Officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited recent layoffs while denying Milwaukee Public Schools officials' request for help with a lead contamination ...
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CDC can't help MPS and Milwaukee Health Department with lead crisis
"My entire division was eliminated today," a CDC ... Kennedy Jr. said April 3 when asked about the cutting of the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention and surveillance branch. He also said that ...