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New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers meet next week. Their agenda suggests they’ll skip some ...
CDC rehires 450 employees fired from HIV prevention, environmental centers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the latest agency in the Health and Human Services Department to rehire ...
3% of measles cases are among fully vaccinated individuals, CDC says
The last measles outbreak of a similar scale occurred in 2019, when a total of 1,274 cases were confirmed across the country.
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Unintentional falls increasingly fatal for seniors, CDC warns
The CDC reports a significant increase in death rates from unintentional falls among Americans aged 65 and older in recent ...
Know the signs and symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that heat stroke 'can cause death or permanent disability if emergency ...
CDC: At least 3% of measles cases this year were in fully vaccinated people
About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC ...
CDC staffing upheaval disrupts HIV projects and wastes money, researchers say
Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails earlier in June revoking notices they ...
Why a vaccine expert left the CDC: ‘Americans are going to die’
Dr. Fiona Havers, who studied medicine at the University of Washington, says the wholesale dismissal of the CDC's scientific ...
HHS budget proposal eliminates CDC's chronic disease, global health centers in favor of new "MAHA" agency
The proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services slashes CDC and NIH funding in favor of the new ...
Infectious disease expert explains why she resigned from the CDC
Former CDC infectious disease expert Dr. Fiona Havers tells CNN’s Jake Tapper why she resigned her post as a senior vaccine ...