With travel season ramping up, the CDC just hit a record number of volunteers to help monitor any viruses on the move episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 23, 2026 · 9 MIN

With travel season ramping up, the CDC just hit a record number of volunteers to help monitor any viruses on the move

from The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Over one million people have now participated in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance. The purely voluntary program helps to detect and respond to emerging public health threats. To learn more about the scope of the program and what this milestone means, Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke with Heather Reese, who leads the TGS program at the CDC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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