Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CBS News that the hantavirus outbreak should be treated differently from COVID.

Seventeen Americans who sailed on an Antarctic expedition cruise ship are now confined inside a federal quarantine unit in Omaha, Nebraska, that was built to handle Ebola patients. They arrived early Monday after being pulled off the M/V Hondius,

Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya urged the public not to panic over the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, underscoring that it’s not like COVID-19. Bhattacharya, who also helms the National Institutes of ...

Newly released provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that fatal drug overdoses fell in 2025, marking three consecutive years of declines. By December 2025, the number of reported drug overdose deaths in the U.S ...

As a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Hondius generated a surge of global headlines for the past week, public health experts noticed one organization was oddly quiet: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cases span more than a dozen states, with people getting sick from a strain of the bacterium that is showing resistance to a number of antibiotics.

The CDC's stance on vaccination has drastically changed, which may be behind people's dipping trust in vaccines, according to new research.