The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the CDC’s deputy director, is leaving the agency after less than five months. It’s the latest example ...
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Erica Schwartz, said Wednesday the agency is prepared to handle a variety of disease outbreaks, despite internal concerns about ...
Drug-resistant “superbugs” are now killing more than 50,000 Americans and infecting nearly 10 million each year, according to ...
A spike in rabies cases among animals this summer has led to a rise in human exposures across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday. In a new health advisory, the ...
Drug-resistant germs cause an estimated 9.8 million infections and approximately 50,800 deaths in the US each year, according ...
The agency previously declined to recognize four measles-associated deaths the Pennsylvania Health Department reported over the last month.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending one of its scientists to Pennsylvania to help curb the state’s growing measles outbreak, a CDC spokesperson said Thursday. That person, a ...