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Increased awareness and implementation of proper food safety in restaurants and delis may help prevent many of the foodborne illness outbreaks reported each year in the United States.

CDC will host a live media briefing at CDC to discuss the renewed spike of measles in the U.S. and its continued threat to health security.

A new analysis of data from 20 major U.S. cities reveals continued signs of sexual risk among gay and bisexual men, but shows dramatically lower sexual risk among those who accurately know their HIV status.

A telebriefing to provide an update on serogroup B meningitis cases in the United States and bacterial meningitis treatment and prevention.

A telebriefing to provide an update on serogroup B meningitis cases in the United States and bacterial meningitis treatment and prevention.

Income, education level, sex, race, ethnicity, employment status, and sexual orientation are all related to health and health outcomes for a number of Americans, according to a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Supplement released today by

Both Pakistan and Afghanistan saw an overall decrease in wild poliovirus (WPV) cases from January - September 2013 compared with the same time period in 2012 according to data published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) released

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden discusses the Winnable Battles initiative.

Every year as many as 10 million U.S. children risk side effects from antibiotic prescriptions that are unlikely to help their upper respiratory conditions. Many of these infections are caused by viruses, which are not helped by antibiotics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received accreditation from the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) for its excellence in emergency management. CDC is the first federal organization to attain full accreditation.