FLICKR, NIAID
Federal documents released to the public this week (September 27) reveal an ongoing dispute within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over how to screen for Zika virus infection, as first reported by The Washington Post. According to the Washington Post, the agency demoted a top researcher in May who had accused the CDC of withholding evidence from state and local laboratories, suggesting that current tests are less effective than alternative ones, then later reinstated his position after he invoked legal protection as a whistleblower.
News of the conflict came to light after the Office of Special Counsel (which handles whistleblower complaints) released documents containing an intra-CDC investigation on the matter.
The dispute began last spring, the documents show, when the public ...
