Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks ...

The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today. Hundreds of people who worked for the office have ...

ATLANTA — Former employees are rallying outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after layoffs on Tuesday. One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into ...

He is former director of the CDC and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. The CDC cuts announced Tuesday threaten America’s health, safety, and economy. Despite claims of ...

The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E. coli illnesses from contaminated ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. After Hurricane Ian, as ...

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica in a written statement that the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.” ...

To put that in perspective, the case fatality rate of COVID-19 is 1.1%. In 2024, the CDC reported 4,514 cases of C. auris infection in patients of all ages — nine times larger than that seen in ...

Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health officials are considering narrowing the recommended age range for ...

Measles cases are most likely being underreported in the United States, according to a senior scientist at the CDC. So far in 2025, 747 cases have been recorded in the U.S. with about three ...