A case of bird flu in a Missouri resident is the only diagnosis in the United States this year where the person did not have contact with ... Diseases at the CDC, said on a call with reporters ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue its second-highest level of travel notice for Rwanda, ...

Regarding the travel notice, the CDC upped its advice from a level 2 notice (take enhanced precautions) to a level 3, which urges people to reconsider ... FDA review of data from people with signs and ...

The CDC's Isolation Precautions Guidance — which informs infection control and prevention practices within hospitals and nursing homes worldwide — was last updated in 2007. The agency's ...

Because the person living in the same house as the Missouri patient had been symptom-free for more than 10 days when they were interviewed by public health officials, Daskalakis said there was “no ...

This special series of commentaries, interviews, and slideshows is part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. This content is designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to ...

Both the mutations and small sample size have presented challenges for the CDC, but the agency expects to announce results of the test later this month after completing the complicated lab process, he ...

Daskalakis said there was "no utility in testing the contact for acute influenza." Instead, officials in Missouri took blood samples from the two people so the CDC could test for "antibodies ...

One health-care worker who had symptoms had what investigators consider high-risk contact with the patient, meaning they provided care before the hospital advised taking precautions such as ...

It's not just putting a bunch of information in front of people and kind of expecting them to navigate all of that," the CDC's Captain Matthew ... Ritchey cited early signs of respiratory ...