A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.

Atlanta, Georgia - Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter ...

Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal ...

The Trump administration is stepping in to help Texas respond to the deadly and highly contagious respiratory virus.

As of Feb. 27, the CDC has reported 164 measles cases across nine states: Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas. Three outbreaks, defined ...

"The country is less safe," Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program, told CBS News.

After studying this year's influenza information, the recommendation is that flu vaccines for next year be trivalent, reports CNN. Also in the news, Vermont reports its first measles case in a ...

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa Hackman's causes of death have been revealed but the investigation remains open ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on the ground in Texas to aid the state in tamping down a measles outbreak, the agency said Tuesday. The agency in a statement on the social ...

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent some of its “disease detectives” to West Texas to help with the measles outbreak there — a sign that the Trump administration ...