Tag: CDC

Dakar: The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is still serious, with data indicating gaps in infection prevention and control, Africa's top public health agency said on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data. The move ...

As expected, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly rewritten the charter for a federal vaccine advisory panel. The edits give him more power to appoint his ...

New Jersey: The ​White House will ​delay naming a new director for the Centers ​for Disease Control and Prevention past a Wednesday deadline and the current acting director, Jay ...

(Eric Lee/The New York Times) In his first week leading two of the nation's health agencies, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been met with praise and gratitude from federal employees ...

Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as Louisiana's surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called COVID-19 vaccines "dangerous," has been named the second ...

Protozoa Protozoa are microscopic, one-celled organisms that can be free-living or parasitic in nature. They are able to multiply in humans, which contributes to their survival and also permits ...

Infectious agent Leishmaniasis is caused by obligate intracellular protozoan parasites; >20 Leishmania species cause leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis has different forms, including visceral leishmaniasis (VL), cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), and mucosal leishmaniasis ...

Bengaluru: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside expert panel began a two-day meeting on Tuesday after a nearly two-month delay during which it will review guidelines ...

Those departures follow Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s office of communications, who left last week; Robin Bailey, the agency’s chief operating officer, left late last month; and Nirav ...