Travelers to tsunami-affected areas may return with a variety of physical problems, including fever, respiratory illness, dehydration, diarrhea or other gastrointestinal disturbance, rash, injuries, ...

The Standing Committee for CDC Center for Preparedness and Response (SCPR), sponsored by CDC, provides a forum for discussion of scientific, technical, and social issues relevant to public health ...

A CDC-developed laboratory test kit to detect 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) began shipping yesterday to select qualified U.S. and international laboratories. Distribution of the tests will help ...

CDC has been responding and coordinating with the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since a new outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu province was reported on July 30, 2018.

U.S. Airmen with the 163d Attack Wing, California Air National Guard, including Staff Sgt. Kevin Wuerth, left, and Staff Sgt. DMarcus Broussard, right, evaluate a reaction found on chemical detection ...

CDC on Wednesday confirmed another infection with 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States in California. The patient is among a group of people under a federal quarantine order because ...

Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-section through ...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has tested the global governmental and public agency response to pandemic emergencies with regard to a number of areas. This essay focuses on major agency ...

Virtual meeting of the Standing Committee for CDC Center for Preparedness and Response. Anyone interested in attending the open sessions of this meeting should send an email request to lbrown@nas.edu.