Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News

I spoke on Monday with Christine Norton, co-founder of the Minnesota Breast Cancer Coalition, about the controversial breast-cancer bill that Sen.

Georgia appears to be unprepared on several fronts to prevent and contain public health threats, according to an examination by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

After this year's scare of swine flu, or H1N1 flu, comes word a new flu is going around, though this one will affect your dog, not you.

As the number of diagnosed cases of swine flu recedes in the Northern Hemisphere, several countries in the Southern Hemisphere are now struggling with how to respond to the H1N1 virus.

Swine Influenza, Swine Flu National Update - Thursday, July 2 - 2:30PM EST - CDC continues to take aggressive action to respond to an expanding outbreak caused by novel H1N1 flu.

At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

CNMI Rep. Gregorio "Kilili" C. Sablan said yesterday that he has received word from the Centers for Disease Control that lab kits are being shipped to the Naval Hospital in Guam for testing suspected cases of H1N1, swine flu, in the Northern Marianas.

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:50 a.m. The Northeast Health District has confirmed a case of H1N1 influenza, commonly called swine flu, in the Athens area.

As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried - he's already running out of money.

Getting a grip on what the A pandemic is all about is key to devising a proper approach to handle the disease.

The new H1N1 influenza strain may be just a little less catching than seasonal flu, but seems a little better able to cause stomach upsets, researchers reported on Thursday.

One of the state's top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov.

The World Health Organization still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.

Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August.

Virginia health officials have confirmed the second death in the state related to the swine flu.

The H1N1 strain, which circled the globe this spring, has a form of surface protein that binds inefficiently to receptors found in the human respiratory tract, the team reports in the July 2 online edition of Science.

Schematic presentation and a photograph of transmission cages. The ferrets are housed in clear Perspex transmission cages, in which each inoculated animal was housed individually with a naive ferret.

With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire.