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The agency said the shots will probably get an annual update, but most people will only need one shot moving forward.

Washtenaw County Health Department officials recommend residents continue as if the county is still in a "medium" level.

U.S. central bank chief is isolating at home while "experiencing mild symptoms," according to the Fed.

The CDC said one of its monitoring systems detected a preliminary safety signal for stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer omicron booster.

CDC officials said disruptions to schools and health-care during the Covid pandemic is largely responsible for the decline in vaccination rates.

XBB.1.5 made up 27.6% of sequenced Covid cases nationally for the week ending Jan. 7 compared to 18.3% for the week end Dec. 31.

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The Biden administration will require airline passengers traveling from China to test negative for Covid before entering the U.S., federal health officials said on Wednesday. The testing requirements come as China battles a major outbreak of the virus after easing its stringent zero-Covid policy in the wake of social unrest earlier this year. The U.S. has limited information on the situation in China, the officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also expanding its program that monitors travelers for new Covid variants to include airports in Los Angeles and Seattle. The surveillance program will now include seven airports and cover about 500 weekly flights, including 290 flights from China and the surrounding area.

Life expectancy in the United States has hit its lowest point in 25 years due to the cascading effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing drug epidemic.

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

The CDC released final data showing that the American life expectancy rate has fallen back to what it was in 1996.

Robert Wiser Bates threatened to kill CDC Head Rochelle Walensky in voicemails left at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, court records show.

Republican lawmakers are pressing the CDC to reinstate data on defensive gun use after removing it from their website. Gun control activists had argued the data was wrong.

The CDC is investigating an outbreak across multiple states linking raw oysters harvested in Galveston, Texas, to norovirus. The FDA confirmed the oysters are potentially contaminated.

The CDC came out with two studies to detail the bivalent booster's effectiveness against COVID-related emergency department visits and hospitalization.

More than 4.5 million children and teenagers had severe obesity in 2018, according to the CDC.

This is the ninth month in a row that the rate of increasing overdose deaths has slowed, preliminary CDC data shows.

There were 48 confirmed cases of COVID-19, five probable cases and three hospitalizations reported within 24 hours as of Friday at 10 a.m.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A 12-year-old boy from Richmond Heights died Tuesday after trying a dangerous game from social media that has gone viral, his family says. Davis called police before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when her sons FaceTimed her after finding the 12-year-old unresponsive in his bedroom. Richmond Heights paramedics took Tristan to Hillcrest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Davis said her son died by strangulation and does not think her son was suicidal, but rather a victim from a dangerous trend circulating online. “On behalf of the City of Richmond Heights, we express our condolences to the family and our community on this tragic situation,” Wetzel said.

Washtenaw County has returned to a "low" community COVID-19 transmission level, according to the CDC.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman robocalled roughly 85,000 voters across five states, falsely telling them that voting by mail would risk "giving your private information to the man."

The CDC will initially work work Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low vaccination rates and begin testing sewage the in those areas.

The CDC is expanding its wastewater testing for poliovirus across the country and Oakland County, Michigan, is joining the list of areas that will be tested.

Nearly 3,000 people, including 12 children, have died from the flu this year as an unusually early and brutal flu season has begun. Dr. Marc Siegel explained there are several reasons for this.

The XBB variant has climbed to 3.1% of new COVID cases nationwide, the CDC now estimates.

The CDC-authorized policy, first enacted under the Trump administration, has allowed U.S. border officials to swiftly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Majestic Princess’s arrival in Sydney triggered memories of coronavirus outbreaks on cruises in Australia and elsewhere early in the pandemic.

Chicago and Cook County returned to a "medium" COVID-19 threat level Friday as cases and hospitalizations rise, the Chicago Department of Health said.

The CDC said the surge highlights the importance of pregnant mothers getting vaccinated, which can protect infants too young to receive the shots.

For most people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a simple message regarding flu vaccines - get one. People ages 6 to 64 are advised to use any licensed, age-appropriate influenza vaccine. The options include inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV), recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV), or live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), with no preference for any one version over the other. Those vaccines are Fluzone High-Dose Quadrivalent vaccine, Flublok Quadrivalent recombinant flu vaccine and Fluad Quadrivalent adjuvanted flu vaccine. If your child previously got two doses of flu vaccine, they only need one dose this season.

Many of the people who got sick reported eating meat or cheese from deli counters where investigators detected listeria bacteria, the CDC said.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to deli meat and cheese has sickened 16 people, including one who died, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

At least 15 others got sick and most were hospitalized, the CDC said. One woman had a miscarriage. The outbreak was tied to deli meats and cheese.

U.S. health officials say a food poisoning outbreak tied to deli meat and cheese has sickened 16 people in six states, including one who died.

Seniors and children younger than age 5 are most at risk right now, public health official said.

According to new data from the CDC, deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The European Commission has authorized the world’s first one-dose drug against a respiratory virus that sickens millions of babies and children globally every year.

The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new recommendations are an update to 2016 guidelines that added momentum to a decline in opioid painkiller prescriptions. Opioids painkillers can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ orders — and were identified as a big reason for a rise in U.S. drug overdoses that began more than two decades ago.

The updated recommendations seek to course correct after guidelines from 2016 were criticized for harshly limiting access to needed pain medication.

The Donald Trump-backed GOP nominee for Arizona governor contradicted herself to Fox News' Laura Ingraham in almost the same breath.

The CDC made headlines this fall after warning cases of some sexually transmitted infections are at their highest levels in decades.

Scientists say an invasive mosquito species was likely responsible for a large outbreak of malaria in Ethiopia earlier this year.

As the weather turns colder, some people find it tougher to stay active — but with smart planning and thought, everyone can practice healthy living and get regular exercise indoors.

Protect yourself this holiday season with N95 masks, KF94 and KN95 masks for kids, at-home COVID-19 tests and more.

Idaho officials have identified a deer in the state with chronic wasting disease. This is the first detected case of the contagious and fatal disorder this year.

Whether you live alone or you enjoy traveling or adventurous activities, there are medical alert devices that can fit your lifestyle.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not record hospitalizations or deaths caused by the respiratory syncytial virus, a common cold-like virus, but the CDC says cases are on the rise across the U.S. Many children’s hospitals have spoken to CNN, telling the news outlet they are overwhelmed with cases of kids. At this time of the year, it’s typically unusual for such a surge in RSV. Though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not give a reason for the surge in hospitalizations, CNN reported. Though if your respiratory droplets got on a doorknob or other objects it can also spread that way.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky had tested positive for COVID-19, despite being up to date with vaccines.

The Vaccines for Children program provides vaccines to kids under age 19 whose families cannot afford them.

Michigan has made blood lead data for children in the state with elevated blood lead levels (3.5 µg/dL and higher) available online through MiTracking.

The CDC said hospitalization rates among Hispanic adults were about two times more than White adults in the 2009 and 2021 flu seasons.

Flu hospitalizations were 80% higher among Black adults, 30% higher among Native Americans, and 20% among higher among Hispanics, according to the CDC data.

If mosquitoes love you, new research suggests it may be because of how you smell.

The daily pace of new shots administered is once again slowing, following an uptick last month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposed changes include testing chickens and turkeys for salmonella before they enter the slaughterhouse.

Seeking to curb food poisoning, the Agriculture Dept. is suggesting widespread changes in how chicken and turkey meat is processed.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed in an effort to reduce salmonella illnesses from food contamination.

The CDC is expected to sign off on the shots soon, clearing the final hurdle before children can get the updated shots.

Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon.

The new chief at the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco center has inherited a raft of problems.

A study of U.S. children with sickle cell disease found fewer than half get a needed screening for stroke, a common complication.

The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania after people eating them there reported falling ill.

Washtenaw County is once again at a "high" COVID-19 transmission level, according to the CDC.

The head of Africa’s public health agency says he’s “really pleased” that the World Health Organization is renaming the strains of the monkeypox disease to remove references to African regions to reduce concerns of stigmatization.

The head of the nation’s top public health agency is shaking up the organization with the goal of making it more nimble.

Health officials are warning people who are infected with monkeypox to stay away from household pets, since the animals could be at risk of catching the virus.

The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.

Africa’s public health agency says the continent of 1.3 billion people still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine, but “very advanced discussions” are underway with at least two partners.

Africa’s public health agency says it doesn’t know how many of the continent’s reported monkeypox cases this year are in men who have sex with men.

Washtenaw County has been bumped up to the “high” COVID-19 community level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

People are recommended to mask up in several Metro Detroit counties that are currently experiencing a high level of COVID-19 community spread, according to the CDC.

The European Medicines Agency says the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorized against monkeypox as an outbreak of the once-rare disease sickens people across Europe.

Confirmed monkeypox cases continue to increase across the U.S., including in Michigan.

Washtenaw County has returned to a "medium" COVID transmission level, according to the CDC.

U.S. health officials say more than 100,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine are on the way to states in the next few days.

A University of Michigan expert explains how the monkeypox virus spreads and how to protect yourself from getting it.

Washtenaw County has once again been downgraded to a “low” community COVID-19 level on Friday, according to the Washtenaw County Health Department.

The first probable monkeypox case has been identified in Detroit, according the city’s chief health officer.

Washtenaw County has rolled back to a "medium" COVID transmission level, according to the CDC.

One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are being tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that the first probable case of Monkeypox in Michigan has been discovered in Oakland County.

Washtenaw County has moved to the lowest risk of community spread of COVID-19, according to CDC.

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency.

British officials said the monkeypox outbreak U.K. is continuing to grow across the country mainly among men who are gay or bisexual or other men who have sex with men.

There is now a second COVID-19 option for kids ages 6 to 17 in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday announced it is recommending Moderna shots as an option for school-age kids and teens.

The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnostic tests for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending tests to commercial labs, including Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare, which it said would significant expand the nation’s health system’s capacity to...

British health officials will start offering vaccines to men who are gay or bisexual or have sex with men, who are at the highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa.

British health officials have reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country, for a total of 574 cases.

U.S. regulators have authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers.

The World Health Organization is creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa.

The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee to determine if the monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread beyond Africa warrants being declared a global health emergency.

British health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the biggest outbreak beyond Africa of the normally rare disease.

The U.S. government is buying more monkeypox vaccine as a surprising international outbreak continues to grow.

British health officials say they cannot tell if the spread of monkeypox has peaked in the country.

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights.

British health officials have reported another 73 cases of monkeypox.

A recent outbreak of hepatitis A cases have been linked to strawberries sold at Kroger, Aldi, Walmart, Trader Joe’s and other grocery stores nationwide.

Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the United States That raises the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time.