Germs that can outsmart lifesaving medicines are posing a growing threat, and the CDC’s latest assessment identifies which ...

The CDC ranks four germs as urgent threats, its most dangerous category: Candida auris, a fungus that spreads in hospitals and nursing homes and resists most antifungal drugs (cases soared from 48 in ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has urged African countries to strengthen cross-border ...

CDC data reveals stark differences in MRSA drug resistance across U.S. states as officials warn it remains a serious threat.

A new report from the CDC shows and increase in drug-resistant "superbugs" across the United States. Experts say that washing ...

Learn how the CDC weighs treatment options, spread, and future infections to assess drug-resistant germs — and why death tolls tell only part of the story.

Nineteen drug-resistant germs cause an estimated 9.7 million infections and 50,800 deaths in the country each year.

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...

Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) deputy director and chief medical officer, is ...

The deputy director and chief medical officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is leaving her job after ...