Helen Branswell and Ian Weissman report CDC paused diagnostic testing support for rabies and mpox and listed many unavailable tests, framing it as a high risk public health capacity failure tied to personnel shortages.
What could possibly go wrong?
#CDC pauses support for states on testing for #rabies & #mpox because it doesn't have the personnel to do the work.
2 pathogens you really don't want to mess with, rabies & mpox.
The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases.
The CDC this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable.
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