US Health Agencies Cancel External Meetings, Travel After Trump Admin Directives January 24, 2025 By Julie Steenhuysen U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told...
US Issues Order Mandating Bird Flu Testing of Milk Supply December 9, 2024 By Leah Douglas The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture...
Hidden Report Reveals Worker Illnesses From Ohio Derailment Cleanup August 19, 2024 By Josh Funk The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers...
Chicken Culling, Disposal Raise Concern as Bird Flu Spreads July 19, 2024 By Leah Douglas The spread of bird flu among poultry and dairy farms has heightened some health experts’ concerns that the process of...
US to Provide Nearly $200M to Contain Bird Flu Spread on Dairy Farms May 13, 2024 By Leah Douglas The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among...
Sick Restaurant Workers Linked to 4 in 10 Food Illness Outbreaks June 1, 2023 By Ilena Peng Sick restaurant and food-store workers were linked to four in 10 US foodborne disease outbreaks in recent years, yet few...
Alcohol Death Toll is Growing, U.S. Government Reports Say November 9, 2022 By Mike Stobbe The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first...
U.S. Justice Department Appeals Transportation Mask Ruling April 21, 2022 By David Shepardson The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday appealed a judge’s ruling ending a mask mandate on public transportation and airplanes after...
CDC Proposes Changes in Guidance to Doctors on Opioid Prescriptions February 16, 2022 By Mike Stobbe The nation’s top public health agency has proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors...
CDC Describes Delta Variant as Highly Contagious – Report July 30, 2021 By Shubham Kalia, Aishwarya Nair and Josephine Mason The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus as being as...