A new government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine, once called dangerous by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is preventing cervical cancer in young women. The report comes after Kennedy pledged to give a family member any fees he might earn from HPV vaccine litigation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it would join a conference hosted by the World Health Organization in apparent defiance of President Donald Trump's executive order.
Lab tests suggest a strain of the flu virus circulating this season may not be "well-recognized" by the flu vaccine.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people who had recently received a vaccine that prevents disease caused by the chikungunya virus.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women should wait to get the MMR vaccine until after they are no longer pregnant,
Five older adults hospitalized after receiving chikungunya vaccine, prompting CDC investigation. Few adverse reactions reported in clinical trials.
In the United States, human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection, according to the CDC | Microbiology
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for next week — the first since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in — has been postponed,
After speculation as to whether this year’s flu vaccine could be poorly matched to the current strain of flu, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released last week says otherwise. The 2024-25 influenza vaccine reduced the risk for influenza-associated outpatient visits and hospitalization,
Do fully vaccinated adults ever need a booster vaccine? No. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers people who received two doses of measles vaccine as children according to the U.S.
Measles cases are growing globally and across the United States. According to the CDC, there have been more than 90 measles cases previously reported in nine different states including Texas where an unvaccinated school-age child died in an outbreak.
The cancelation comes as the United States is in the midst of a particularly severe flu season. So far, there have been 86 deaths in children and 19,000 deaths in adults this season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.