The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its 24/7 emergency center in Atlanta to monitor the recent ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has activated its 24/7 emergency center and classified hantavirus at the lowest activation level, according to a report Thursday evening. The CDC’s ...

Three people are dead, five U.S. states are monitoring exposed passengers, and the CDC has activated its emergency center in Atlanta.

If you've ever worked in a nation without a functioning public health system, it's unforgettable. In 2001, I spent some time working at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, a small town ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is escalating its response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, after the World Health Organization labeled ...

A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best. It's in half the states, including New York, ...

Encased in spacesuit-like gear needed to protect them from the world’s deadliest viruses, four scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped into their lab’s decontamination ...