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Doctors and researchers said the moves will make it harder to detect potentially dangerous changes. If the virus continues to ...
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) spoke about proposed cuts to the CDC.
Measles cases in the United States have reached their highest number in more than 30 years, according to new federal data ...
The Senate Health Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for ...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thursday to recommend ...
The CDC did not answer USA TODAY’s questions about what pathogen was involved or whether anyone was treated for potential exposure. Some records contain more clues than others about what went wrong.
The CDC has also been testing wastewater from sewers to detect mutations in the virus that could make it spread more easily among humans. For the week ending May 4, 189 wastewater sampling sites ...
The CDC has been dealing with COVID cases since cruises ... "It is important to know that there is at least a two-day lag in the posting of an updated color status," the CDC's Daigle told USA TODAY.
This new CDC update may quell some major concerns about how COVID-19 is transmitted, but plenty of questions still remain. Here's what to know.
CDC spokesperson Tom Skinner told USA TODAY on Friday that additional guidance for travel would be coming soon. He did not provide a timeline for those updates.
A CDC spokesperson told USA TODAY last week that cruise ship inspections would continue amid the staffing cuts. “This work has not stopped, as the VSP is primarily staffed by USPHS commissioned ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in ...