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More than 40 people in the US may have been exposed to hantavirus from a cruise ship outbreak. Here's when this rare disease showed up in Florida.
The “cicada” SARS-CoV-2 variant, which earned its nickname after staying relatively dormant following its discovery in 2024, has accounted for a small proportion of COVID-19 cases since the CDC began tracking the variant. In the week ending April 11 ...
WASHINGTON -- Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with executive orders from President Donald Trump.
The CDC will have less data to track the spread of Covid and new variants after the public health emergency ends on Thursday. The U.S. has a fragmented health-care system where the authority to decide what disease data gets reported largely rests with ...
Sonya Stokes, M.D., an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for ...
There have been over 32,000 cases of whooping cough this year, CDC data shows—the highest count seen in a decade. Reading time 2 minutes Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is making a comeback that no one asked for. Recent federal data shows that ...
For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public. When the ...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows emergency room visits for tick bites are running higher than usual in many parts of the country, prompting a warning from health officials as peak tick season begins.