The CDC is raising concerns about the increased spread of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause explosive diarrhea, among other symptoms. Here's how to reduce your risk.

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting that the CDC could loosen infection control ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for patients who are thought to be contagious, including for ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an advisory group meeting this week during which a vote on ...

Children receive a drip at a children hospital in Beijing on November 23, 2023. The World Health Organization has asked on November 23, 2023, China for more data on a respiratory illness spreading in the north of the country, urging people to take steps to ...

So far, the CDC has not reported any infections in Alabama, but health officials want the public to be aware. According to Dr. Megan Amerson Brown, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,

The parasite is primarily found on contaminated raw food sources. It spreads through the contamination of raw produce and water with human feces.

Bird flu has turned up at a game-bird farm in Pennsylvania, one of the latest detections as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps close watch on the virus.