The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments

It was January when the email came. After a roughly six-month-long hiring process that included fingerprinting and other background checks, an official offer of employment at the United States Centers

The health department said there may have been exposures at Dulles’s international arrivals area and a Howard County pediatric emergency department.

Possible Measles exposure at Dulles International Airport and Howard County, according to health leaders. Officials say the individual was returning from an international trip at IAD on March 5th, 2025.