The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Susan Monarez, PhD, as director of the CDC. She is the first CDC director in more than 70 years who does not have a medical degree. The U.S. Senate voted along party ...

The Senate July 29 voted 51-47 along party lines to confirm Susan Monarez as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monarez served as acting director of the agency from ...

If you spot someone who might be struggling from a heat-related illness, knowing the symptoms can help you take action.

Three mosquito pools in Lowndes County have tested positive for West Nile Virus and the Georgia Department of Public Health’s South Health District wants to remind all South Georgians to take ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States weighs releasing a travel advisory for China due to ...

The latest DEP reports indicate the high beach of Harry Wrights Lake in Manchester has been closed and the lower beach placed ...

Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become. U.S. Health ...

The AP reported that Monarez became the first CDC director to pass through Senate confirmation under a 2023 law. The CDC has ...

Foodborne illnesses peak during June, July and August, accounting for one-third of all such illnesses in the U.S.

Some doctors in Alberta have criticized officials for not declaring a health emergency in the western province, where measles ...

Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain ...

The first case of West Nile virus in North Carolina this year has been reported in Durham County, the county’s Department of ...