Thinking of calling CDC to report a potential disease outbreak? Don't bother; no one will answer, a former CDC employee said Tuesday. "If it's an infection that is being seen in the hospital in four different patients, and the infection control nurse calls ...

The U.S. State Department has issued a Level 2 travel health notice, warning travelers to “practice enhanced precautions” when visiting Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cuba and China’s Guangdong Province due to the spread of chikungunya, a virus transmitted ...

Cases span more than a dozen states, with people getting sick from a strain of the bacterium that is showing resistance to a number of antibiotics.

After three director changes since July and a wave of significant staff departures, the CDC faces growing questions about its capacity to deliver the outbreak coordination, surveillance and public health guidance hospitals have relied on for decades.

Twelve medical experts headed to South Carolina to bolster outbreak response State reported 973 measles cases as of Friday CDC Foundation often assists during disease outbreaks, natural disasters Feb 24 (Reuters) - A dozen public health experts are ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is backing a large-scale effort to sequence 1,000 measles genomes as outbreaks spread across multiple states, deploying genomic tools that go well beyond traditional case counting. The push comes as ...