The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

On Wednesday, an agency spokesperson said CDC personnel have been cleared to speak one-on-one with their WHO counterparts related to response activities in Uganda and two other countries with ...

Tanzania has reduced maternal mortality by 80% in a seven-year period, from 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016 to 104 per 100,000 in 2022. The success is attributable to increased political ...

Africa CDC Deploys Experts To Tackle And Contain Spread ... According to WHO reports, Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 the country's first in Kagera region ...

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on January 20 announced that it is mobilizing strong support to help Tanzania contain the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak after ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the returning Trump ...

Overseas, health authorities have been closely watching several emerging disease threats, including the possibility of a Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania. CDC officials did submit a ...