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A dead sea bird lays beside a dead sea lion on the beach at Punta Bermeja, on the Atlantic coast of the Patagonian province of Río Negro, near Viedma, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Government experts suspect that bird flu is killing sea lions along Argentina's entire Atlantic coastline, causing authorities to close many beaches in order to prevent the virus from spreading further. (AP Photo/Juan Macri, File)

Bird flu is highly lethal to some animals, but not to others. Scientists want to know why

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

A dead sea bird lays beside a dead sea lion on the beach at Punta Bermeja, on the Atlantic coast of the Patagonian province of Río Negro, near Viedma, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Government experts suspect that bird flu is killing sea lions along Argentina's entire Atlantic coastline, causing authorities to close many beaches in order to prevent the virus from spreading further. (AP Photo/Juan Macri, File)

Scientists want to know why bird flu is highly lethal to some animals, but not to others

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

CDC coronavirus COVID-19 vaccination cards are shown at the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial hospital, April 15, 2021, in Miami. Federal authorities charged a Marine Corps reservist and a nurse with scheming to steal, forge and sell hundreds of coronavirus vaccination cards. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

CDC saddled with tough new job: Regaining Americans’ trust after wobbly response to COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this April 20, 2020 photo, Catherine Hopkins, Director of Community Outreach and School Health at St. Joseph's Hospital, right, performs a test on a patient in a COVID-19 triage tent at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. New York’s plan for taming the coronavirus hinges on taking a time-tested practice to an extraordinary level: hiring an “army” of people to try to trace everyone who might be infected. It's part of a common approach to controlling infectious diseases -- testing, tracing contacts and isolating those infected. But the scope is staggering even for a public health system that used the technique to combat AIDS and tuberculosis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

‘Unprecedented:’ Seeking an army to trace virus in New York

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

Medical staff talks to a shopper in her car who volunteered at a pop-up community COVID-19 testing station at a supermarket carpark in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) **FILE**

Former CDC chief outlines a four-step path to boxing in coronavirus

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Andre of Washington, D.C., rides the Metro subway Green Line train in Washington, Friday, March, 13, 2020. He wears two face masks and gloves to protect his children and grandchildren from the coronavirus. He doesn't want to bring it home. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

How coronavirus spreads, infects: COVID-19 impact comes into focus

By Marilynn Marchione - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 file photo, a worker wearing a mask and protective clothing walks between the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital in northern Italy. The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus in March 2020 as it continues its spread in what is now officially recognized as a pandemic. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

How it spreads, infects: Coronavirus impact comes into focus

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Associated Press

FILE- In this Aug. 24, 2018 file photo, Dr. Thomas Frieden, center leaves court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, the former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct violation related to his 2018 arrest for alleged sexual misconduct. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Thomas Frieden pleads guilty to disorderly conduct related to sexual misconduct arrest

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Former head of the CDC pleads guilty to violation

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FILE - In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The New York Police Department says Frieden was arrested on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 in Brooklyn. Frieden surrendered to face charges that he grabbed the buttocks of a woman he knew in his home last October. It says she reported it in July. He is charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

The Latest: Ex-CDC director told to stay away from accuser

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FILE - In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The New York Police Department says Frieden was arrested on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018 in Brooklyn. Frieden surrendered to face charges that he grabbed the buttocks of a woman he knew in his home last October. It says she reported it in July. He is charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Ex-CDC director Frieden accused of groping woman’s buttocks

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

In this April 1, 2016, photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden speaks during a news conference in Atlanta. The New York Police Department says Frieden, who also is a former New York City health commissioner, was arrested on Friday morning in Brooklyn on a sex abuse charge. (AP Photo/David Goldman) **FILE**

Tom Frieden, former CDC director, arrested, accused of forcibly touching woman

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This photo taken Oct. 3, 2014, shows Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Georgia Dept of Public Health, talking about precautions the public can take against Ebola infection during a news conference at the Cobb County Jail in Marietta, Ga. Fitzgerald, has been named director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She replaces Dr. Tom Frieden, who resigned earlier this year at the start of the Trump administration. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, MD, announced Friday, July 7, 2017, Fitzgerald as the 17th permanent director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). (Kent D. Johnson /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia health commissioner named CDC director in Atlanta

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Experts worry about loopholes in prescription drug bill

By EZRA KAPLAN - Associated Press

CDC: 3 Miami businesses epicenter of 1st US Zika outbreak

By JENNIFER KAY - Associated Press

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden speaks during a news conference at a Zika summit in Atlanta in this April 1, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC chief: Zika will be sobering, long-term problem for U.S.

By S.A. Miller and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is calling for a $1.8 billion project to combat Aedes aegypti. (Associated Press) **FILE**

CDC, Democrats make last-ditch plea for more Zika money

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is calling for a $1.8 billion project to combat Aedes aegypti. (Associated Press) **FILE**

CDC chief begs Florida delegation for full Zika funding

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, samples of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting dengue and Zika, sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Tom Frieden, CDC chief, says Americans ‘deserve’ more Zika funding

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

CDC Director Thomas Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on emerging health threats and Zika virus supplemental request. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CDC chief: Link between Zika, birth defect ‘increasingly certain’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times