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CDC will host a media telebriefing today to discuss the on-going outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. There is no significant risk in the U.S. While it is unlikely that the disease would spread if imported into the United States, the recent infections

Telebriefing on two MMWR articles released today by the CDC. One article is on the National, Regional, State and Selected Local Area Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents age 13 to 17 in the United States in 2013. The other is on Human

Clinical TB lab first to meet enhanced safety review

CDC announced today the formation of an external laboratory safety workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC.

Latest vaccination coverage estimates for adolescents show only small increase for HPV vaccine

About 4 in 100,000 people live with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, according to the first data summary released today by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

CDC will host a media telebriefing to discuss the latest coverage rate estimates for vaccines recommended for adolescents in the United States.

Seven months after the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya was recognized in the Western Hemisphere, the first locally acquired case of the disease has surfaced in the continental United States. The case was reported today in Florida in a male who had

More than half of youth in the United States have access to parks or playground areas, recreation centers, boys' and girls' clubs, and walking paths or sidewalks in their neighborhoods, according to a new report, State Indicator Report on Physical

CDC hosted a media briefing to discuss the report that highlights actions being taken by the agency to prevent lab incidents, including the recent anthrax lab incident occurring in early June at the Roybal Campus location in Atlanta, Georgia.