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Statement from Karen Hacker, MD, MPH, Director CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion on Extended Growth Charts for Children and Adolescents with Severe Obesity

Following FDA action, today CDC expanded the use of updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 6 months through 5 years.

Studies show vaccinated people have substantially less risk for contracting mpox compared with those who are unvaccinated and identified no major safety concerns after nearly 1 million doses administered.

Transcript for the CDC Media Telebriefing : Update on Respiratory Disease Circulation. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association will discuss the latest information about respiratory disease

 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) has released updated guidance to help state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies, and other partners as they

Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association will discuss the latest information about respiratory disease circulation and highlight the beginning of National Influenza Vaccination Week.

The nation's ability to prevent HIV was dealt a hard blow early in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new CDC analysis published today, on World AIDS Day: Putting Ourselves to the Test: Achieving Equity to End HIV. A rapid rebound in services

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will strategically expand wastewater testing for poliovirus in select jurisdictions across the country.

Today, CDC is awarding $3.2 billion to help state, local, and territorial jurisdictions across the United States strengthen their public health workforce and infrastructure.

In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose: 25 million children missed their first dose and an additional 14.7 million children missed their second dose, a joint publication by the World Health Organization