Typically, meningitis infections strike babies or adolescents and young adults. The CDC’s alert comes after the Virginia Department of Health warned about five deaths from the same rare ...

An invasive bacterial infection is on the rise in the U.S., according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cases of meningococcal disease, mainly caused by the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday to inform health care centers and the public of a confirmed human infection of the bird flu. A worker on a ...

In the alert, the CDC explained that a variant of the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y has reported 140 cases in 2024 so far. Although meningitis typically affects infants and young adults ...

The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, based in Atlanta, has been busy at the end of this quarter. They’re keeping an eye on some illnesses that come from food. This team works hard to ...

In an alert to doctors on Thursday, the CDC noted an increase in cases of one type of invasive meningococcal disease, most of it due to a specific strain of bacteria. Last year, 422 cases of it we ...

There has been no human-to-human spread in the US, but there have been sporadic cases of people sharing the bird flu virus in other parts of the world, so the CDC says it is watching the situation ...

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The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. The CDC said on its website Thursday that "overall, cases ...

Analysts don’t expect the CDC committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, to make a decision until June. But the discussion scheduled for Thursday morning could give ...

As of Monday, 143 cases had been reported, compared with 81 cases this time last year, the CDC said. There were 422 cases recorded last year, the highest annual number since 2014. The increase in ...