The Latest Breaking News from CDC

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of David Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Weldon, a longtime vaccine skeptic, had been scheduled to appear before the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Previous research shows public trust in health agencies and other institutions has eroded over recent years

The pandemic has gone so far down the memory hole that it's like it never happened

Two people have died in outbreak in Gaines county, and doctors fear the spread of the extremely contagious disease

Measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico now have more than 250 cases total

"Today, Texarkana's unusual geographic and political arrangement continues to instruct us about the deeply intertwined nature of politics and health."

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe pneumonia cases of unknown cause” reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It had spread to 118,000 cases reported in…

Federal datasets began disappearing from public view on Jan. 31, 2025, in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. Among those were the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which asks respondents about their gender identity and sexual orientation and tracks behaviors like smoking and…

Some Cabinet officials loathe Musk, but Kennedy grabs his chance to destroy science-based medicine

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