Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

The workers' duties included city immunization efforts, tuberculosis research and preparation for public health emergencies, a health department spokesperson said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The state of New York has issued new requirements to prevent the spread of bird flu in poultry. The initiative is geared towards birds that are sold at live markets. Earlier this month, the state shut down 82 live bird markets so they could be sanitized and disinfected. Those markets were recently reopened.

The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York was currently in isolation and that it was trying to identify people who might have come in contact with the patient.

A lot is unfolding at the national level of public health, including the recent firing of about 1,300 federal health agency employees. We’re still learning about the impacts of the layoffs, but the direct impacts on New Yorkers are minimal.

New York senators urged RFK Jr. to reverse CDC cuts citing concerns over the impact to a 9/11 survivor health program.

The city’s line of communication with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was severed in the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to Health Commissioner Michelle Morse,