COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The CDC and public health officials are investigating multi-state outbreaks of salmonella, including five people in Ohio. Dr. Joanna Failor with OhioHealth noted the outbreak of salmonella illnesses is linked to contact with backyard poultry.

The head of the World Health Organization has expressed concern about the scale and speed of an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, as World Cup and summer travel nears. Dr. Thomas Giordano, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Baylor College ...

An escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws that led to the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of other highly regarded top officials. Health Secretary ...

As diseases like measles, whooping cough and tetanus spike in unvaccinated patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a major overhaul to the childhood vaccine schedule, recommending kids get only 11 vaccines instead of 18.

As the Trump administration prepares to nominate a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, insiders say they worry the nominee will only further undermine trust in the nation’s top health agency, even as outbreaks of measles ...