Veterinarian in a milking barn (Photo by Getty Images). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ...

The CDC updated its guidance around isolation on Tuesday, declining to add a clear testing recommendation while saying that people can take a test if they have "access" and "want to." The new ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday adopted its vaccine advisory committee’s recommendation to end the ...

It's been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of ...

What should you do if you or someone you have been in close contact with tests positive for coronavirus? How long are you contagious, how long should you quarantine for and when should you get tested?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Dec. 16 that it adopted individual-based decision-making for parents deciding whether to give the hepatitis B vaccine, including the birth dose ...

In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state’s public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — You've heard a lot of talk about genomic sequencing: It's the process used in labs to detect variants of COVID-19 from PCR test samples. Some social media users falsely claim it's ...

People with COVID-19 won’t be required to test negative to leave quarantine because rapid tests aren’t designed to determine how contagious a person is, the director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn’t harmed the agency’s outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for ...