A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is critical in setting national vaccine ...

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired ...

The new study is more evidence that the official U.S. tally of confirmed human bird flu infections — 68 in the last year — is likely a significant undercount, said Dr. Gregory Gray, an infectious ...

As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, ...

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration in a ...

Multiple outbreaks of the measles have been reported so far this year, with one outbreak in Texas ballooning from six cases to 48 in just over a week.

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration ...

The US is in the throes of an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen ...

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be ...

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency’s ...