On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, ...

Measles cases have reached 1,046 as the virus continues spreading across the United States, according to data updated Friday from the CDC.

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted its advisory panel's recommendations on vaccines for ...

But since President Trump's administration assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with ...

Since January many of the CDC’s regular public communication platforms have dramatically reduced activity or gone silent ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A ...

The variant, first detected in the U.S. in late March, has now been identified in arriving international travelers through ...

The cases highlight the importance of keeping pets current on their vaccinations and preventing any contact with wildlife, ...

Despite the fact that vaccines against COVID have already undergone strict safety reviews and that people continue to die ...

Chu was eight months into her job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She had never ... Like many other CDC staff, her job was not flashy. “That’s the nature of public health ...