Re:: Exodus, morale shake CDC

[Guest guest]

I find this somewhat encouraging; the track record on corruption, lack

of transparency and " knowledge filtration " is abysmal. Can this

" exodus " be interpreted as showing that there are still people out there

WHO refuse to politicicize our health?

 

 

 

The most visible sign of potential trouble at CDC is the loss of more

than a dozen high-profile leaders and scientists since 2004. By the end

of this year, all but two of the directors of CDC's eight primary

scientific centers will have left the Atlanta-based federal agency. The

wave of departures — which numerous CDC leaders call unprecedented

— also includes the agency's top vaccine expert and world experts in

several diseases. Just last week CDC's pandemic flu coordinator said

he's leaving.

 

 

 

Proprietary information?

 

Last year, Nature magazine, one of the world's premier scientific

journals, blew CDC and the Bush Administration out of the water.

Specifically, in a detailed story by Declan Butler we learn of CDC's

record of data sharing with the world scientific community. Despite

Bush's call at the UN last week that the international community

share sequences, samples and information about influenza, CDC has not

done so, even with the US's top scientists.

 

 

Keep the faith, UncBob

 

 

Avian2005 , " Lori R. Price " <lrprice wrote:

 

 

News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government

12 September 2006

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Exodus, morale shake CDC

<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2006/09/09/0910MESHcdcmo\

rale.html> 10 Sep 2006 An exodus of key leaders and scientists from the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised " great concern "

among five of the six former directors who led the agency over the past

40 years. Their concerns, expressed in a rare joint letter to current

CDC Director Julie Gerberding, come amid growing staff complaints about

whether her strategic shifts in the agency's focus are putting public

health at risk, according to interviews with current and former CDC

officials and documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Senate Finance Committee, prompted by a CDC whistleblower, is

probing CDC's oversight of a $3.8 billion bioterrorism grant program.

 

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