Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of ...

A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and control. A new model to analyse infectious disease ...

Physical distancing policies and particularly stay-at-home work mandates have proven highly effective at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But these measures have had numerous unwanted ...

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee issued guidance on the prevention and control of ...

Authors examine challenges that local health departments face and offer solutions to help focus their mission as early detectors and intervenors, more clearly delineate their roles amongst state and ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (EAU CLAIRE CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE) - The Eau Claire City-County Health Department has developed a public dashboard to make data about reportable communicable ...

Chikungunya and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) are two distinct but increasingly important vector-borne public health threats in China. Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease ...