Vaccine And STD Info Scrubbed From CDC, NIH Sites

February 1, 2025 Medicine, Science

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted infections and vaccinate adults Friday, as part of a sweeping purge of all mentions of “gender” from federal websites ordered by the Trump administration this week.

“Doctors in every community in America rely on these treatment guidelines to know what tests to run, to know what antibiotic will work on which infection, and how to avoid worsening antibiotic resistance,” said David C. Harvey, head of the National Coalition of STD Directors, in a statement to CBS News.

Data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a nationwide survey of high school students about mental health, substance abuse and violence, were also wiped from the website. The last round of the survey’s results had highlighted worsening mental health and violence affecting LGBTQ high school students.

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DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many **vaccine recommendation** scientific pages! https://t.co/nA23A8qDQI pic.twitter.com/u5bHXUVRHE

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 1, 2025