On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the government will invest $176 million in ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or vaccinated for the avian flu.

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

The general public are showing “ignorance and apathy” towards the threat of bird flu, say the authors of a new editorial, ...

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

STEUBENVILLE — Recent public health funding cuts by the Centers for Disease Control will impact the Jefferson County General Health District’s respiratory virus testing, Health Commissioner Andrew ...

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.

But after another massive upheaval at the CDC in April, the unit's future is uncertain ... outbreak of polio in children that ...

An uncontrollable measles outbreak has taken over the U.S. with US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) taking immediate action against the epidemic. CDC advised extra measles protection ...

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, while trying to ...

Late last year, the CDC rolled out a seasonal flu vaccine campaign targeted at more than 200,000 livestock workers. The hope was that flu vaccinations would lessen the chance of a farmworker being ...