Previous CDC reports showed that 1 in 54 8-year-olds had been diagnosed with autism in 2016. In 2000, it was 1 in 150. “The most striking piece of this is how unbelievably common presentations ...

NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a “senior data analyst” at HHS named David Geier.

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting with gastrointestinal outbreaks on cruise ships. The epidemiologist tasked with leading the federal ...

An infectious disease researcher, she has a long, more traditional background in federal policy, which could assuage some concerns as the first CDC director that will require Senate confirmation.

A woman in Maine developed a dangerous meat allergy after a black-legged tick bite—prompting the CDC to rethink which ticks can trigger alpha-gal syndrome. A decade of cases suggests the threat ...

The city of Milwaukee Health Department requested the CDC’s help March 26 with the investigation of lead exposure in Milwaukee Public Schools, after multiple schools tested positive for ...

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren't infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official ...

“Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political bias and disastrous mismanagement.” Earlier this month, the White House withdrew the nomination of Weldon, a former Florida ...

At the CDC, his days were spent updating far-flung local TV, radio, and newspaper journalists about threats such as seasonal flu, measles, and food safety in their communities. A judge has ordered ...