Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.

Federal drug safety officials have recommended pausing the use of a vaccine for a mosquito ... run by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to flag potential safety problems ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

(NewsNation) — One person dies every 33 seconds from heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the leading risk factors for heart disease is high ...

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“They look to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” HICPAC usually met three times per year to craft recommendations for the prevention of health care-associated infections in ...

Symptoms and treatments depend on the type of heart disease someone has. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... mitral valve in the heart does not close tightly enough ...

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Babesiosis is a rare, tick-borne disease caused by a parasite that attacks the red blood cells and can lead to flu-like symptoms such as fever ...

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal, infectious nervous system disease of whitetails, mule deer, moose, elk and other members of the deer family, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Epidemics of infectious disease often come in waves, but the causes of these waves aren't clear, frustrating efforts to ...