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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned people not to eat raw cookie dough while the investigation continues.

Safety regulators say the products could contain ethylene oxide, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and eye and skin burns.

Most jurisdictions have low levels of vaccination coverage, the CDC says.

For every American killed by gunfire, an estimated two or more more survive, often with terrible injuries.

Democratic lawmakers have renewed an effort to fund research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that would track gun violence and study firearm safety following the Nashville school shooting.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,300,168 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2.5 million cases of STDs in 2021. Health experts continue their focus on outreach in both metropolitan and rural areas.

Do you wash your ground beef? A registered dietician weighs in on this viral trend that exists on TikTok where viewers are wondering if they have been cooking beef wrong.

Dr. James Kelly of Kelly Vision Center in New York appeared on "Fox & Friends Weekend" to discuss recent cases of eye drops tainted with drug-resistant bacteria — and how to stay safe.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said autism is on the rise, with the developmental disability being diagnosed more in minority children than White children.

The deadly superbug CDC is warning everyone about has two ways it can affect your body. Fungus might sound similar to TV show, but it’s not ‘The Last of Us.’

A deadly fungus known as Candida auris is spreading across the United States. But health experts and doctors say that the multidrug-resistant yeast does not normally affect healthy people.

The CDC is investigating a nationwide outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria — Pseudomonas aeruginosa — which has infected 68 people in 16 states.

CDC leadership was focused on internal equity trainings in March 2021 while Americans waited to hear when their kids would be back in the classroom, new records show.

The eye drops were contaminated with an antibiotic-resistant form of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an aggressive bacterium, according to the CDC.

Medical and health care experts in New York weighed in on the rise in cases of the potentially deadly fungus candida auris, which is typically found in hospital settings and long-term care facilities.

At least eight people have gone blind and four people have had their eyeballs surgically removed, the CDC said.

Infections from drug-resistant bacteria have caused death and illness in 68 patients across the U.S., the CDC says. The strain has been linked to recalled eyedrops like EzriCare Artificial Tears.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,297,406 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

Candida auris, a potentially deadly fungus that is resistant to drug therapy, is spreading rapidly across the U.S., the CDC said.

Candida auris, or C. auris, is so concerning because it is often resistant to anti-fungal drugs, making it hard to treat infections. It can also be hard to identify with standard lab tests, making it even more difficult to treat properly and early.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

Cases of a deadly fungus, Candida aurist, have tripled in the U.S. in the past few years, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

Cases of the fungus in which it did not respond to antifungal medicine tripled in 2021. It can be deadly, but does not seem to have adverse effects on healthy people.

Reports of patients with the drug-resistant fungal infection Candida auris have accelerated in recent years.

Here's what it might be.

Lyme Disease isn't the only tick-driven illness that residents of the northeast should worry about. The CDC says cases of Babesiosis, which can cause flu-like symptoms, are on the rise in 8 states.

Babesiosis effects can range from a mild illness with no symptoms to people getting severely sick with multi-organ failure.

Patients lose vision and have eyes surgically removed after using eyedrops now recalled in the US.

There aren't enough new antibiotics in the pipeline, the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning, to deal with deadly pathogens; "antibiotic resistance" is a big concern in medicine today.

Pregnancy-related deaths in the United States surged during the pandemic. UN agnecies reported that a spike in maternal mortality rates occurred in all parts of the world in 2020.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,294,668 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

After years of high rates, the country hit a new high during the pandemic, far exceeding rates in other developed nations. Black women are at especially high risk.

The agency acknowledged to The Fact Checker that it rounded figures to give a misleading presentation.

That we’re all sad in winter is a common refrain, but some researchers are questioning the season’s psychological effects.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — as well as the Food and Drug Administration — have published a joint letter denouncing Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci after the latter disputed allegations of freezing out a former CDC director from a conference call on the origins of COVID-19.

Anthony Fauci on Thursday forcefully denied suppressing the lab-leak theory in the early days of the pandemic.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,291,951 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

The rule had been imposed two months ago as China ended its "zero COVID" policies.

Doctors scored highest in the survey, with more than half of respondents saying they trust physicians "a great deal."

The CDC issued a health alert stating that a person with measles attended a large religious event in Kentucky last month, potentially exposing an estimated 20,000 people.

The 200,000 residents of Charlotte County, Florida are being advised to use tap water cautiously and avoid it from entering their noses after a man died from a brain-eating amoeba.

Federal health officials are warning parents of newborns to sterilize equipment used for both bottle- and breast-feeding.

A south Florida man died Feb. 20 after contracting Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating infection, from using tap water to rinse his sinuses. His case was the first in the U.S. this year.

American women, on average, lived to age 79 in 2021, while men lived to about 73, according to CDC data.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,287,440 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

Ohio's GOP and Democratic senators want CDC and EPA to conduct health screenings of residents to establish a "medical baseline" to track health outcomes due to the train derailment.

Former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield gives his take on theories that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan lab on "The Story."

Doctors have limited options to treat the "extensively drug-resistant" strains of Shigella bacteria.

CDC officials issued a warning to health care providers this week about an uptick nationwide in bacterial infections of "extensively drug-resistant" shigellosis.

The FDA has authorized the first over-the-counter home test that can detect both influenza A and B as well as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

A working committee for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found insufficient evidence to recommend more than one yearly COVID-19 booster.

An avian influenza — bird flu — outbreak with the H5N1 strain that began in 2020 has hit record levels, affecting millions of animals. As the virus mutates genetically and spreads geographically, the normal ebb and flow of infection has given way to a persistently elevated level in wild birds. They are spreading the highly contagious pathogen to domesticated poultry and a rising number of mammals, including badgers, bears, ferrets, pigs and raccoons — as well as a handful of people. Though the v

An avian influenza — bird flu — outbreak with the H5N1 strain that began in 2020 has hit record levels, affecting millions of animals. As the virus mutates genetically and spreads geographically, the normal ebb and flow of infection has given way to a persistently elevated level in wild birds. They are spreading the highly contagious pathogen to domesticated poultry and a rising number of mammals, including badgers, bears, ferrets, pigs and raccoons — as well as a handful of people. Though the v

An avian influenza — bird flu — outbreak with the H5N1 strain that began in 2020 has hit record levels, affecting millions of animals. As the virus mutates genetically and spreads geographically, the normal ebb and flow of infection has given way to a persistently elevated level in wild birds. They are spreading the highly contagious pathogen to domesticated poultry and a rising number of mammals, including badgers, bears, ferrets, pigs and raccoons — as well as a handful of people. Though the v

The effectiveness of flu vaccines can vary widely season to season depending on how well the strains included in the shots are matched to circulating viruses.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,282,206 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

Reckitt says despite contamination fears, the recalled formula tested negative for Cronobacter, which can cause rare but deadly infections in infants. Here's how to identify and prevent them.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,276,356 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,269,006 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,260,796 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,251,042 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

Doctors use the month to talk about the importance of getting a pap smear and getting vaccinate against HPV.

Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners are down again, and federal officials are launching a new campaign to try to bring them up.

As of Tuesday, Virginia is reporting 2,229,877 cases of the coronavirus across the Commonwealth since March 2020.

As COVID-19 surges in China, the U.S. is expanding its traveler surveillance program, an early warning system for detecting new variants.

With colder weather here, we’re working for you to share some safer heating alternatives.

Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year.

Schools in our region have been impacted already, and others have closed because of many student and staff illnesses.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Uganda next week will host a ministerial meeting on the outbreak of the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus which has no proven vaccine and has caused alarm in the East Africa region.

A federally funded study has found a possible link between aluminum in some childhood vaccines and persistent asthma, but experts say the study has several shortcomings.

The monkeypox vaccine will now be offered to more people in Virginia.

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 1,972 cases of monkeypox across 44 states.

The decision came after a unanimous vote from the CDC vaccine advisors on Saturday. Since then, the FDA authorized emergency use of the vaccine.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months, clearing the way for vaccinations to begin soon.

On Thursday, the CDC updated its COVID-19 Transmission Tracker and elevated some localities in the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts.

A new CDC study shows that drug overdoses and poisonings were the third leading cause of death for children and teenagers ages one to 19 in 2020, jumping 83.6 percent from the year before.

Losing a loved one is a goodbye no one wants to say, especially not a parent.

The CDC is set to extend the travel mask mandate for two weeks to monitor the uptick in COVID-19 cases.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, her spokesman says.

After the last couple years of living through a global pandemic, it seems as though most of us are itching to get in some good travel time.

Across Virginia, the number of people living in areas where the CDC would recommend masking indoors continues to decrease.

Colon cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths, according to the CDC.

The Jefferson Center is easing up on its COVID-19 policies following changes to CDC guidelines.

Across Virginia, 62 of the 133 cities and counties changed levels.

As the pandemic persists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have added a dozen countries to a list of locations with the highest level of risk associated with COVID-19.

Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and aren’t showing any symptoms will still be allowed work at Ballad Health, WCYB reports.

An unexpected work session vote Tuesday by the Roanoke County School Board to get rid of the school-wide mask mandate if and when Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin reverses the current public health order.

As the omicron variant spreads across the united states, the former director of the CDC is laying out guidance for parents with children returning to school.

The NFL is reducing isolation time for players who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, including unvaccinated players, to five days from 10.

Health leaders, like Roanoke City and Alleghany Health District spokesperson, Christie Wills are hopeful the expansion of eligibility for booster shots will help prevent a COVID case surge during the holiday season.

Following the CDC’s approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, options for where kids can get the vaccine are expanding in our region.

Children aged 5-11 can now get a COVID-19 vaccine after the CDC gave the final approval Tuesday night.

Nearly 2.2 million people nationwide are now eligible to receive COVID booster shots after the CDC authorized extra doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines Thursday night.

This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highly recommends trick-or-treating outside in small groups and avoiding crowded indoor Halloween parties.

A child has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he had visited, and a review discovered lapses in water-quality testing at several parks, officials said Monday.