The state noted a 15- to 19-year-old contracted the highly contagious disease. It was unknown if they contracted it outside the state or was related to the earlier case.

Former CDC infectious disease expert Dr. Fiona Havers tells CNN’s Jake Tapper why she resigned her post as a senior vaccine adviser, citing concerns about changes to the agency’s vaccine ...

A third case of measles has been reported in Florida this year, this one in Leon County. This case follows two others in ...

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Dr. Barbara Marston, a former CDC infectious disease leader and Decatur physician, pointed to HIV cuts as an example of a strategy that didn’t make sense.

We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, ...

Which jobs were cut at CDC? Here’s a list. The Trump administration wants the agency to focus on infectious disease. Other areas of public health were hit hardest.

Startling charts reveal how infectious disease could engulf America Stanford research projects that if vaccinations dip by just five percent, the case count of measles could jump to 5.7 million ...

The fifth Symposium on Infectious Disease in the Immunocompromised Host convened in Seattle last month. Experts and rising ...