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This Past Flu Season Was the Longest in 10 Years, the CDC Says

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Popular Science

America’s sexually transmitted disease rates are out of control

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CNN

CDC’s handling of polio-like illness criticized by its own advisers

A CDC doctor said the agency was working hard to find the cause of the outbreaks Since 2014, there have been 396 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis, which resembles polio and causes paralysis ...
Inverse

Flu 2018: CDC Director Gives Bad News for the Next Few Months

The 2017-2018 flu season has been a particularly nasty one, and according to officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. On Friday, ...
Medical Xpress

CDC: invasive MRSA more likely among injection drug users

(HealthDay)—Injection drug users are more than 16-fold more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to research published in the June 8 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

7 health issues CDC tackled in 2018

Here are seven health issues the CDC addressed in 2018: 1. Opioid epidemic. Congress appropriated $476 million in fiscal year 2018 to support the CDC’s efforts to address the opioid epidemic. The ...
STAT

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years

NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
People

CDC Says Cases of Polio-Like Illness Have 'Peaked' in 2018 but They Are Still Unsure of the Cause

The Centers for Disease Control said that cases of AFM, a polio-like illness, have peaked for 2018, but they still have not determined the cause Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, ...
Medical Xpress

CDC: Uninsurance levels did not change significantly in 2018

(HealthDay)—In 2018, the percentage of U.S. individuals who were uninsured was not significantly different from the numbers in 2017, although uninsurance increased among adults aged 45 to 64 years, ...
CNBC

CDC says smoking rates fall to record low in US

An estimated 14 percent of adults, or 34.3 million people, smoked cigarettes in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1965, 42.4 percent of adults smoked cigarettes, ...
Reason

CDC, in Surveys It Never Bothered Making Public, Provides More Evidence That Plenty of Americans Innocently Defend Themselves with Guns

UPDATE: The paper discussed in this post below has been withdrawn by the author Gary Kleck after Reason brought to his attention an important detail first pointed out by Robert VerBruggen of National ...