In its FY2026 budget proposal, the CDC eliminated $40 million in funding for its Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity program from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, along with $12 million for Healthcare-Associated Infections programs. <\/p>\n
Separately, the administration attempted to cut roughly $600 million in CDC-administered public-health grants to four states, including funding for disease surveillance and outbreak response, although a federal judge temporarily blocked the cuts. <\/p>\n
These reductions do not establish that funding cuts caused the current cyclosporiasis outbreak, but they raise questions about whether state and federal health agencies have enough staffing and resources to rapidly detect cases and conduct laboratory testing.<\/p>\n
The recall on iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms in Mexico remains in place, despite a false positive on a test earlier this week<\/a>. Traceback data from cases connects this outbreak to that source, the CDC said.<\/p>\n Taco Bell has since removed the affected lettuce<\/a> from its local restaurants and national supply chain, and Taylor Farms has issued a nationwide recall of iceberg lettuce<\/a> sourced from Mexico. Sysco, the nation\u2019s largest food distributor, withdrew all Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce from Mexico at \u200bthe supplier’s request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its FY2026 budget proposal, the CDC eliminated $40 million in funding for its Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-320506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320506","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=320506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}