ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its warning about the risk of contracting measles while traveling, after the agency tallied dozens of cases so far this year in travelers who were infectious while flying…
Health officials are sounding the alarm after three cases of measles were detected at Denver International Airport. An infected individual arrived at the airport after a Turkish Airlines flight on May 13 and stayed in…
COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — With measles cases across the U.S. now more than 1,000 and 14 active outbreaks confirmed, the Virgin Islands Department of Health is ramping up efforts to prevent a local outbreak by urging unvaccinated…
MIAMI (MH) — A Broward high school has confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest, but treatable, infectious diseases in the world. The bacterial infection, also known as TB, spreads by breathing…
of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job, multiple officials tell CBS News
Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country were laid…
NEW YORK (NYP) — More than 200 people aboard a still-at-sea Cunard Line cruise bound for New York, including members of the crew, contracted norovirus in the latest cruise ship outbreak of the nasty stomach…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Department of Health said it “is closely monitoring the rise in measles cases in the US along with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which reported more…