In an interview, outgoing CDC Director Mandy Cohen defended the agency’s wide focus in the face of GOP criticism that it has ...

CDC could not confirm what was suspected to have been the first H5N1 bird flu case linked to raw milk consumption. The ...

Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public ...

Public health experts worry that Weldon could undermine confidence in vaccines even as infectious-disease threats such as ...

Chagas disease is a parasitic infection; acute cases can be diagnosed through microscopic examination of blood to detect the ...

Every state but Iowa has seen fewer children get vaccinated this season and flu-related pediatric deaths are at a ...

Today's health news includes an exit interview with the CDC's Mandy Cohen, the average BMI in the US declined in 2023, and ...

Fentanyl has made headlines for driving overdose deaths, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of the ...

COVID-19 was "intentionally engineered as a part of a biodefense program" by the U.S., former CDC director Robert Redfield ...

Last year, nearly 70% of all U.S. overdose deaths were attributed to illegally manufactured fentanyls (IMFs). One of those was carfentanil, which is said to be 100 times more potent, the CDC ...

As of Nov. 30, about 36 percent of the nation’s children aged six months to 17 received a flu vaccination, a drop from last ...

Although vaccinations among adults have remained steady, the CDC says fewer children are getting vaccinated against influenza ...