A virus that can cause a polio-like illness among children has been found in Bay Area wastewater as influenza cases spike.

Dr. Mark Pallansch, retired director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC, and who oversaw the domestic measles and polio programs, said the cuts “will decimate the U.S. health system ...

(Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File) Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is shown in April, 1955. (AP Photo) Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who created the polio vaccine, administers an ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks ...

About 1 in every 31 children were diagnosed with autism in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing a trend of increases from previous ...

Measles cases are most likely being underreported in the United States, according to a senior scientist at the CDC. So far in 2025, 747 cases have been recorded in the U.S. with about three ...

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren't infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency official ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio, officials said. According to the World Health Organization ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding to ongoing measles outbreaks, even as a large number of cases are not ...

The HHS head does not believe the rising rate of autism spectrum disorder is linked to improvements in diagnostic practices, contradicting what the CDC says in a ...

NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a “senior data analyst” at HHS named David Geier.