It was late 2019 and the Clinton County Health Department was in talks to work on some emergency preparedness training.

Spread primarily through droplets released by coughing or sneezing, measles can remain in a room and on surfaces for up to two hours after an infected person leaves, according to the CDC.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) is hereby transmitting the report of the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee (Committee) ...

Bacterial foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. increased while viral outbreaks declined between 2014 and 2022, with environmental ...

Public health experts say the United States learned some things from COVID-19, but gaps remain in the public health ...

The government's free at-home COVID-19 test distribution program is no longer accepting orders, its website says. Here's how to get tests in the meantime.

The U.S. was considered more prepared than any other country to deal with a pandemic. But when Covid arrived, multiple flaws were exposed.

When Covid moved from urban America to rural America, it found different but equally fruitful pathways to bring infection and ...

Critics charge that its cuts to the public health workforce so far have been indiscriminate, wasteful and cruel.

But five years after COVID-19 began its deadly surge across the world, they share concerns that the tumult in federal health ...

The layoffs at the CDC partly involved new hires and probationary employees who were in the first three years of employment with the agency. Similar layoffs hit the Food and Drug Administration ...

(The Hill) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday notified approximately 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago that they can return to work, according to The ...