Tag: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Cruise industry: CDC drops the “No Sail” in favor of a strict Conditional Sailing Order

  

  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dropped its controversial “No Sail” order in favor for a so-called Conditional Sailing Order. In short, the “No Sail” order has been lifted and the industry will work with the CDC on a realistic, phased-in return to service.

• Friday, July 17th 2020 - 07:35 UTC

  US shuts borders with Mexico and Canada until August 20

  

  United States Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced on Thursday that borders with Mexico and Canada would remain shut to most travel, to stem the spread of the coronavirus, for another month to Aug 20.

• Sunday, May 29th 2016 - 13:06 UTC

  Superbug in US: Doctors fear it could herald a post-antibiotic era

  

  A superbug resistant to all known medications has been found in the United States for the first time, raising new concern about the dwindling effectiveness of antibiotics, the top US public health official said this week. . The case involved a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania whose urinary tract infection tested positive for a strain of E. coli that is resistant to the antibiotic of last resort for such infections, known as colistin.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2016 - 07:51 UTC

  Fourteen countries in a US travel alert for pregnant women because of Zika virus

  

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued travel alert for people traveling to the Caribbean and other areas that have confirmed transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  Norovirus outbreak on two cruise ships off the coasts of Mexico and California

  

  Hundreds of Royal Caribbean passengers were stricken with acute gastrointestinal ailments, including vomiting and diarrhea, on two cruise ships off the coasts of Mexico and California earlier this week. The debilitating illness was identified as norovirus, outbreaks of which aren’t uncommon on cruise ships, especially during the winter season.

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Imported chikungunya reaches UK: 197 cases reported so far

  

  British public health officials say they are grappling with an escalating number of cases of the debilitating chikungunya virus, as holidaymakers return from Caribbean countries.