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Another cruise, another norovirus outbreak!
I don't understand cruising, and never will. Call me an cruise killjoy, I don't care. I'm just over here, not on a floating petri dish, trying to avoid infectious diseases including COVID-19, measles, ...
By mid-May 2025, the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP)–responsible for the health of ship travelers–had already recorded 12 confirmed norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships.
A dream vacation quickly turned into a nightmare for more than 140 people aboard Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas, as ...
The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC will publish large amounts of data for researchers to sift through related to possible causes of autism, during an interview ...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accepted recommendations made by a panel of vaccine experts in April, months before they were abruptly fired by U.S. Health Secretary Robert ...
A U.S. Senate committee has approved Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new members to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) -- some of whom were seen as contrarians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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