U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been ordered to immediately stop engaging with the World Health Organization, a move that affects critical work on influenza surveillance and disease outbreaks across the globe,

US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organisation, effective immediately.

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in 2022, Weldon will need to be confirmed by the Senate before starting in the position.

A US health official, speaking anonymously as they were not authorised to discuss the matter, confirmed that communication with WHO had been halted.

The CDC released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released some new flu data to the public, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.

With federal health agencies such as the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a temporary freeze on public communications, some data and publications have not been released on their normal schedule.

With a halt on scientific data being shared publicly, the CDC is getting crafty to warn of increasing flu hospitalizations.

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been ordered to stop working with the World Heath Organization immediately, following President Donald Trump’s executive order withdrawing the U.