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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, long-term monitoring of more than 154,000 World Trade Center responders and survivors is showing higher cancer-screening rates and lower …
WTC Health Program Links Long-Term Care to Better Outcomes Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning clinicians and health departments about a nationwide rise in reported human rabies exposures and treatment errors after vaccine …
CDC Warns Rabies Exposures Are Rising Across U.S. Read More
ATLANTA, GA — Federal health officials have linked alfalfa sprouts sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands to 55 E. coli and Salmonella infections across 15 states, prompting warnings …
CDC Links 55 Illnesses in 15 States to Alfalfa Sprouts Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal health officials are investigating a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeño peppers from Sinaloa, Mexico, that has sickened 345 people across 27 states and hospitalized 36, …
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Jalapeños Sickens 345 Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A multistate Cyclospora outbreak linked to recalled Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce has expanded to Pennsylvania and three other states, raising the number of laboratory-confirmed illnesses to 1,947 …
Lettuce-Linked Cyclospora Outbreak Expands to Pennsylvania Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hospital-acquired infections declined in U.S. hospitals between 2015 and 2023, according to new federal data, though health officials estimate more than half a million patients still developed …
CDC Reports Decline in Hospital-Acquired Infections Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal health officials on Friday linked 1,644 Cyclospora infections and 94 hospitalizations across five states to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants, prompting the supplier …
CDC Links 1,644 Illnesses to Taco Bell Lettuce Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is experiencing its earliest and most active start to West Nile virus season in more than two decades, with 48 human cases reported by …
CDC Reports Earliest, Most Active Start to West Nile Season Since 2004 Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has concluded its public health response to a Hantavirus exposure event linked to the M/V Hondius cruise ship after …
HHS Ends Monitoring After Hantavirus Exposure on Cruise Ship Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal health officials are investigating a multistate outbreak of infant botulism that has hospitalized three infants in California, Pennsylvania and Washington, prompting a nationwide recall of Nara …
CDC Investigates Infant Formula-Linked Botulism Cases Across Three States Read More