{"id":211385,"date":"2026-04-27T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:05:08","slug":"new-york-state-lab-steps-in-to-test-for-rabies-flu-and-other-diseases-as-cdc-pauses-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211385\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State lab steps in to test for rabies, flu and other diseases as CDC pauses testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 As the CDC pauses testing for multiple diseases, New York State says it\u2019s filling the gap.<\/p>\n<p>The State Health Department says its <a href=\"https:\/\/wadsworth.org\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/wadsworth.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wadsworth Center<\/a> in Albany is helping with lab testing for a range of viruses, including rabies, pox and flu. The Wadsworth Center received more than 13,000 samples from 23 states last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department says the center was critical in helping develop this year\u2019s Northern Hemisphere seasonal flu vaccine. In one case, it even identified the drug-resistance pattern that helped a Texas tuberculosis patient finally recover.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC picked Wadsworth as a National Influenza Reference Center and reference center for vaccine preventable viral diseases from 2025-2030. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-01-23_statement.htm\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-01-23_statement.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still not clear why the CDC paused an unprecedented amount of lab testing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/testing\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">testing<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/cdc\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 As the CDC pauses testing for multiple diseases, New York State says it\u2019s filling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3930,9,11,10,49,51,50,27194],"class_list":["post-211385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cdc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}