US health officials announced a breakthrough Friday into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses, reporting they have a "very strong culprit."

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E-Cigarettes are everywhere. Vaping has become so ubiquitous that "vape" was Oxford Dictionaries word of the year in 2014. Today, Danielle looks at how and why vaping took off. She examines the early 20th century prototypes for electric...

Epidemiology underpins everything we do in public health and global health. Epidemiology is more than just research methods and qualitative and quantitative study design. It's about understanding the distribution of states of health and...

The CDC is warning Americans to be extra careful as cases of norovirus are surging in the United States. (Scripps News)

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The government will send a rapid response team to any hospital in the country that diagnoses another Ebola patient, to make sure the local health workers can provide care safely.

The Centers for...

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On Thursday, CDC Director Tom Frieden spoke with reporters in Atlanta about the recent measles outbreak in the United Sta
tes.
The Centers for Disease Control and...

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CU Surgeon scrubbing hands

Series of maps reveal Ebola transmission data at CDC emergency operations center.

A severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation centre for "medically fragile children" has left six youngsters dead and 12 others sick, the state Health Department said on Tuesday.

A severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation centre for "medically fragile children" has left six youngsters dead and 12 others sick, the state Health Department said on Tuesday.

Stockshots of Johnson & Johnson's world headquarters in New Jersey a experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends resuming the administration of the J&J vaccine in the United States, which had been paused...

Sounding alarms about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that if the global community does not confront the problem soon, the world...

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Sounding alarms about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that if the global...

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A new report says one out of 25 hospitalized patients gets a healthcare-associated infection, and one in nine of them d
ies.
The Centers for Disease...

Social media companies have been more proactive at stopping health-related misinformation than other kinds. But it's still easy to find.

Princeton University officials decided Monday to make available a meningitis vaccine that hasn't been approved in the U.S. to stop the spread of the sometimes deadly disease on campus.

The university...

There's a lot of misinformation floating around about the new coronavirus. Here's how to stay diligent.

The study by New York and California health officials found that overcoming an infection protected better against Delta than vaccination.

Illinois health officials said "an individual who had recently vaped and was ​hospitalized with severe respiratory illness" had died.

​Investigators tested lung fluid samples from 29 patients in 10 states and found vitamin E acetate in all of them.

Washington, DC - September 24, 2002

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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease
Control:
"As of this morning there were 1,965 human cases of...