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US disease agency declines high-volume measles test validation, states say
Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images CDC denies approval for high-volume measles test, citing ‘other priorities’ California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii health officials ask CDC, ‘prioritizing emerging technologies’, to reconsider California and Washington asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May to validate a new way to test for measles – but after waiting two months, the CDC denied the request, citing “other competing priorities”, according to a letter from the West Coast Health Alliance to the CDC director, Erica Schwartz.