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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created a first-of-its-kind education module to help clinicians recognize and diagnose Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a sometimes serious and fatal disease spread by the bite of an

CDC has posted a food safety alert about a multistate outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses linked to raw oysters imported from Mexico at https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/investigations/rawoysters-05-19/index.html.

The Global Health Security Strategy (GHSS), released today, reaffirms a continued and coordinated U.S. Government (USG) approach to strengthening the world's capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, whether natural

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Pregnancy-related deaths can occur up to a year after a woman gives birth - but whenever they occur, most of these deaths are preventable, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report.

According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, pregnancy-related deaths can occur during pregnancy, at delivery, and even up to a year afterward (post-partum). Every pregnancy-related death is tragic, and 60 percent are preventable. New data take a

"While small construction firms are particularly hard hit, we encourage all leaders in the construction industry to make fall prevention and the safety of construction workers their highest priority," said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. "Addressing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its U.S. government partners have released the first federal collaborative report listing the top zoonotic diseases of national concern for the United States. Zoonotic diseases are illnesses

The final investigation update regarding a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to raw turkey products is now available: https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/reading-07-18/index.html

Transcript for the CDC Telebriefing on the National Update on Measles outbreak.