Experts warn that the federal government shutdown and job cuts at the CDC could cloud visibility into respiratory virus activity and ...

The federal government shutdown has brought respiratory virus surveillance to a halt at the national level, leaving local ...

Public health agencies are under pressure to move faster, detect threats earlier, and make better decisions, even as their funding is cut and their authority reduced. While most public health agencies ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was modernizing a public health surveillance system used by 25 health jurisdictions ...

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis ...

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) ...

Diseases spread by ticks and other insects are becoming more common in the United States, but a new methodology for tracking Lyme disease may overestimate the significant spike in cases seen in 2022.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the federal agency that monitors diseases and establishes guidelines to protect human health — published a paper last month that shows cases of Lyme ...

The National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) was launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September 2020 to connect independent, local wastewater efforts to form a robust, ...

Wastewater monitoring could act as an early warning system to help countries better prepare for future pandemics, according to a new study. An international collaboration involving Murdoch Children's ...

Florence Nightingale’s innovative “rose diagram” of preventable deaths revolutionized data-driven disease surveillance. 1 Raw hospital mortality data collected during the Crimean War were transformed ...