Tag: CDC

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  US believes more than 20 million Americans could have contracted Covid-19

  

  United States government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  CLIA announces voluntary suspension of cruise operations from US ports

  

  Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) issued the following statement to announce that the association’s ocean-going cruise line members will voluntarily extend the suspension of cruise operations from U.S. ports until 15 September 2020.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 07:00 UTC

  US influenza season, the worst in ten years and particularly severe with children, according to CDC

  

  The number of children dying from influenza in the United States is higher at this point in the flu season than it has been in 10 years, and the virus is gaining momentum, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  US will screen travelers from Chinese city of Wuhan for symptoms of new respiratory virus

  

  The United States will begin screening efforts at three U.S. airports to detect travelers from the central Chinese city of Wuhan who may have symptoms of a new respiratory virus that so far has killed two people and infected 45 more, public health officials said on Friday (Jan 17).

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 23:25 UTC

  New York country massive vaccination campaign following measles outbreak

  

  The New York county which declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak is on the “right path” after administering hundreds of vaccinations in two days, the chief of the US district said. Under the emergency, Rockland County banned non-vaccinated minors from public places in a bid to prevent the once-eliminated disease from spreading.

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  If visiting Brazil get yellow fever shots, recommends CDC, outbreak has spread to urban areas

  

  Travelers to Brazil are being warned to vaccinate themselves against yellow fever due to an outbreak of the disease in urban areas, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned in a press release on Friday.

• Saturday, October 18th 2014 - 08:13 UTC

  Ebola scare reaches cruise industry: Carnival vessel barred from Mexico and Belize

  

  A laboratory technician from the Dallas hospital where a Liberian died of the Ebola virus, and who handled some of his fluid samples for analysis, has been placed in quarantine aboard a cruise ship, the State Department said on Friday.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:37 UTC

  Steroid injection spreading rare form of fungal meningitis infection in the US

  

  The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are quickly moving to determine the source of the fungal infection causing a rare form of meningitis that has killed seven people in nine states in the last few weeks, as the producer of the steroid injection apparently carrying the infection recalled all of its products.