CDC reports antimicrobial resistance is an urgent global public health threat and, in the U.S., more than 2.8 million ...

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...

Invasive group A strep infections in the US have more than doubled in a decade with rising antibiotic resistance and deadly complications prompting urgent calls for vaccine development ...

Invasive strep can trigger necrotizing fasciitis, a soft tissue infection known as flesh-eating disease, or a reaction akin ...

Under RFK Jr.'s order, the Centers for Disease Control fired all employees of a lab studying STIs and drug resistance to ...

The CDC noted that it can cause “infection in different parts of the body like the blood, wounds, and ears” and that symptoms ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...

Cases of invasive group A strep are on the rise in the U.S., according to a newly published report led by CDC researchers. From 2013 to 2022, the rate of infections rose from 3.6 cases per 100,000 ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also declared the fungus as "an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat" as it has become increasingly difficult to treat. Scientists have ...

A surveillance study of 10 US states shows the incidence of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection more than doubled ...

state health officials in Massachusetts worked with the CDC lab to investigate a "concerning" case of a new strain of gonorrhea that was resistant to a broad swath of antibiotics. The agency also ...