Times are tough for thousands of federal employees working at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, but it appears there is light at the end of the tunnel.

America's top disease control agency, the CDC, is in disarray. Hundreds of staff face repeated firings and rehirings amid lawsuits and a government shutdown. Essential departments are unmanned, vital health programs are stalled,

More than 115 people have become ill so far after close contact with these animals—with nearly three dozen reported hospitalizations.

Even at a time of unprecedented challenges to the work of public health, there is room for optimism, says former CDC Director and “disease detective” Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the Resolve to Save Lives initiative.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an advisory Oct. 29 on three unrelated cases of clade I mpox recently identified in California.

Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, has been removed from the position, the White House said Wednesday. Several high-level veteran agency officials resigned after word spread ...

Much has been written about the unprecedented impact that the second Trump administration has had on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from massive job cuts and entire programs being wiped out to leadership shake-ups and the undermining of science.

“CDC employees are being targeted by HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” the first staffer says, linking the Health secretary’s anti-vaccine rhetoric to a rise in public mistrust of the agency ahead of the August 8 attack. (Authorities said the gunman expressed “discontent” with COVID-19 vaccinations before the attack.)