The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000—but that hard-won achievement is now under threat. To contain the current outbreak, some ...

Plus, University of Mississippi student Mary Kate Cornett, 19, speaks out after a viral rumor perpetuated by people like ESPN ...

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a ...

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

Gun murders in 2023 fell 14% from the 2021 peak, while gun suicides peaked in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported ...

With a confirmed measles case in Colorado, Utah health officials are closely tracking neighboring states as the disease ...

The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these ...

Workers across the CDC were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer New data from the CDC suggests that alpha-gal syndrome—a tick-borne allergy to red meat—may be more widespread than previously thought.Scientists long believed that only ...

The CDC noted that it can cause “infection in different parts of the body like the blood, wounds, and ears” and that symptoms ...

While C. auris may not a serious threat to healthy people, it is becoming more frequent, particularly in hospitals, where it ...