US CDC says sending seven people to Texas to help ... including measles and bird flu. "We are scraping to find the resources and personnel needed to provide support to Texas and other ...

Preventing a pandemic means early detection of bird flu strains — surveillance of viral spread and influenza infections in ...

Nearly 400 Washingtonians have died from influenza since October, making the past year the state’s deadliest flu season in over a decade. Experts still expect several more weeks of flu activity ...

H5N1 bird flu was rampant in Colorado, leading to the culling of millions of poultry. When there was a cluster of H5N1 cases in the workers performing the cull, Colorado requested the CDC include ...

"We do believe that there's quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported," said Dr. David Sugerman, senior scientist for the CDC's measles response this year. Sugerman's ...

President Donald Trump's newly formed CDC is considering a shakeup to the Covid vaccine schedule. Currently the agency recommends every American adult and child over the age of six months gets ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...

A majority of the CDC's working group favored the risk-based approach compared to the current near universal recommendation. The panel is set to vote on formal recommendations in its June meeting.

When they stop, calls go back down. The CDC estimates that in the first five years of the campaign alone, an estimated 1 million Americans quit smoking, preventing 129,100 premature deaths.

The loss of the CDC’s viral hepatitis lab will leave ... country and cure everybody,” he said. “It’s a small investment for a big payoff.” Hepatitis is an umbrella term for inflammation ...

Data on injuries from car accidents, alcohol and other incidents will no longer be collected The change, coming Friday, stems from CDC staff cuts Data informs safety standards and public policy ...

Today, new CDC data showed that nearly 18 percent of ... people - warned in that 2005 interview about the influence of Big Pharma and the quick-fix mentality he believed was being sold to ...