In the best circumstances, mosquito bites are an itchy nuisance. In the worst, they can lead to potentially deadly viruses ...

The CDC has laid off hundreds of employees, affecting little known parts of the agency that help keep people alive.

To stay ahead of this year's measles outbreak, Richland Public Health is offering several mobile vaccination clinics.

A large measles outbreak that spread through parts of New York State for nearly 12 months nearly cost the country its ...

Health agency staffers describe a week of chaos and continued uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the introduction of vaccines in the 1940s. In the decades since, the bacterial disease was ...

Betsy Hackman, wife of legendary actor Gene Hackman, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), New Mexico’s chief medical examiner announced.

Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters were among those who were fired from ...

The U.S. agency has not released information on what global programs were cut this week. NPR spoke to current employees who ...

Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Hackman's cause of death was determined to be hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which is caused ...

When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that he planned to rehire 20 percent of the employees he’d just terminated, he insisted such a move was “always the plan.” Turns out, it wasn’t ...

Protesters, including CDC employees, gathered to denounce job cuts that have left thousands of public health workers ...