r/science • u/eastbayted • 2d ago

Health Sick food service workers remain top driver of viral foodborne outbreaks in US

https://www.healio.com/news/gastroenterology/20250331/sick-food-service-workers-remain-top-driver-of-viral-foodborne-outbreaks-in-us
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u/Professional_Mud5949 2d ago

Yes! CDC's Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was decimated yesterday. These researchers were terminated. The work they did is important. Public health is important. Environmental health is important. They provided funding to state and local health and agriculture departments. Cuts to federal funding are cuts to state funding. The effects of these terminations will reach everyone reading this. They prevented illnesses and saved lives.