Respiratory illness activity is currently considered "high" in the United States, according to the CDC. In one state, it is at a "very high" level.

Investigators detailed an outbreak of blastomycosis -- characterized by cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, and fever or chills -- that occurred among workers at a paper mill in Delta County, Michigan, from November 2022 to May 2023. Among the 645 workers studied, 162 received a blastomycosis diagnosis, of whom 12% were hospitalized, and one died.

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, responds to former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx’s warning that US agencies “are making the same mistakes they made with Covid.

Cruise ships saw the highest number of stomach bug illnesses since 2012 with 16 outbreaks that impacted 1,894 passengers.

Outbreaks occur when two or more similar illnesses result from a common exposure — in this case, norovirus. The CDC has also reported a total of 495 outbreaks from April to Dec. 11, an increase of 130 from 2023. Those numbers may increase after families ...

There’s a new health warning about respiratory illnesses. The CDC is reporting that cases of the cold, flu, COVID and RSV are on the rise.

He called on the NIH and the CDC to drive targeted research and data-collection efforts. But the Biden administration has missed a critical opportunity to illuminate how abortion bans are interfering with maternal healthcare, leading to deaths and ...

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) shows that over half of U.S. states have either "high" or "very high" levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—in their wastewater.

Noroviruses, also known as food poisoning or the stomach bug, are “ common and highly contagious ,” according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. About 1 in 15 people across the U.S. get the virus annually, experts said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies are closely monitoring the spread of the HN51 avian influenza, commonly known as the bird flu, nationwide after human cases increased to at least 66.