Since the start of the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic back in 1981, an estimated 75.7 million people have been diagnosed with HIV worldwide, and 32.7 million people have died of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were apparently spared by the cuts made over the ...

Scientific shorthand for an unknown or hypothetical pathogen, Disease X could cause an international epidemic or pandemic that again sweeps the world-and health experts are united in believing one ...

Egg shortages in stores and sky-high prices: The consequences of the bird flu epidemic have continued to worsen in the United States at a time when public health agencies have been trying to cope ...

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The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence Service, otherwise known as the “Disease Detectives.” The lay off affected 1,260 staff, reported NBC News’s Lewis Kamb.

Kennedy Jr. signaled Thursday that ending the “childhood chronic disease epidemic” will be one of his top priorities during President Trump’s second term. “For 20 years, I got down every ...

Editors’ note: As of Monday, Feb. 17, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service program who had been warned they were to be fired had not received termination letters. The Trump ...

Up to 85% of adults across the country have experienced loneliness within the past 12 months Dr Murthy attributed this new epidemic to causes ranging from the encroachment of digital technology ...

Some of those fired from the CDC on Friday were first-year fellows in the agency's two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service program, which trains healthcare professionals to investigate diseases ...

Hospitals are meant to heal, but lurking in their very infrastructure are dangerous bacteria, thriving despite rigorous cleaning protocols. A study of sink drains in a high-standard university ...