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 ...

Officials with the state Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, the state's public health lab, say Wadsworth can pick up ...

Federal agency, which normally supports state and local public health labs, has been hobbled by staff departures ...