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Officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have completed their joint

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Our nation depends on truck drivers to deliver goods and services safely and efficiently. Yet, crashes involving large trucks continue to take a toll on truck drivers, their passengers, other road users, businesses, and the community.

Truck drivers are essential to the transportation of goods in the nation, but also have a risky job. This month's Vital Signs focuses on proven interventions employers and truck drivers can use to help reduce fatal injuries and motor vehicle crashes.

CDC will discuss new national burden estimates for infections and deaths from C. difficile, a deadly diarrheal infection associated with antibiotic use.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have developed an improved method for analyzing outbreak data to determine which foods are

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is today reporting on the discovery of a new virus that may have contributed to the death of a previously healthy man in eastern Kansas in late spring 2014. A CDC study published today details the

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has completed an internal investigation of an incident that occurred in December within the agency's Ebola virus laboratory, which resulted in no illness and was unlikely to have involved an

Although secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the US dropped by half between 1999 to 2000 and 2011 to 2012, one in four nonsmokers - 58 million people - are still exposed to SHS.

CDC will provide information on current U.S. measles outbreak and guidance for health protection.