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Hosted by CDC, the one-day Zika Action Plan Summit will bring together officials from local, state and federal jurisdictions and non-government organizations to prepare for a coordinated U.S. response to Zika.

CDC Director Tom Frieden traveled to Puerto Rico March 7-9 to assess firsthand CDC's support for the Zika response. He will provide an assessment of the situation in Puerto Rico and an update on CDC's Zika response efforts.

CDC has updated its interim guidelines for healthcare providers who care for infants and children with possible Zika virus infection.

CDC continues to investigate potential Ebola exposure among individuals in Sierra Leone, including several American citizens, following the identification of an American volunteer healthcare worker in Sierra Leone who tested positive for Ebola virus

Media telebriefing will include a public health assessment of the current status of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The costs associated with skin cancer increased five times as fast as treatments for other cancers between 2002 and 2011, according to a CDC study published online today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

CDC hosted a telebriefing on the CDC Ebola Response and Interim Guidance

CDC will host a telebriefing on the CDC Ebola Response and Interim Guidance

A hospitalized medical aid worker who volunteered in Guinea, one of the three West African nations experiencing an Ebola epidemic, and since returned to the United States has tested positive for Ebola according to the New York City Health Department

On October 4, CDC's Quarantine Public Health Officer met a flight arriving from Brussels, Belgium at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport to assess a sick passenger who had traveled from West Africa.