Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Passengers flying from Busan, South Korea, receive temperature checks for MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) as they arrive at Hong Kong Airport, Friday, June 5, 2015. The current frenzy in South Korea over MERS brings to mind the other menacing diseases to hit Asia over the last decade -- SARS, which killed hundreds, and bird flu. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

World health group to help South Korea contain disease

Robert King · June 5, 2015 9:55 pm

Feds shift to abstinence, monogamy as ‘most reliable’ STD prevention

Feds shift to abstinence, monogamy as ‘most reliable’ STD prevention

Paul Bedard · June 4, 2015 6:39 pm

he shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in late 2012 is what prompted President Obama to lift the ban on federal gun violence research. (AP Photo)Â

Dems seek $60 million to fund federal research on gun violence

Pete Kasperowicz · June 3, 2015 4:03 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Pentagon warns of more live anthrax discoveries

Tara Copp · June 3, 2015 3:02 pm

This Feb. 19, 2015 photo shows Referee Module No. 2 of the Whole System Live Agent Test at Dugway Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating that aspect of what went wrong at Dugway Proving Ground, the Army installation in Utah that sent the anthrax to government and commercial labs in nine states across the U.S. and to an Army lab in South Korea. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)

America not ready for a bioterror attack: Experts

Robert King · June 3, 2015 4:01 am

"Protect yourself from the sun by wearing a hat and clothes that cover your skin," said CDC Director Tom Frieden. (AP File)

Skin cancer rates double over past three decades

Robert King · June 2, 2015 5:39 pm

Anthrax mix-up likely due to testing error

Anthrax mix-up likely due to testing error

Robert King · May 30, 2015 4:01 am

CDC DirectorÂ Tom Frieden was contacted byÂ members of theÂ House Energy and Commerce Committee demanding a briefing over the accidental shipment of live anthrax. (Getty Image)

National Security

Lawmakers summon top officials on accidental anthrax delivery

Susan Ferrechio · May 28, 2015 10:54 pm

(Photo Credit: CDC, via Wikimedia Commons)

National Security

Pentagon, CDC search for answers after anthrax foul-up

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 5:08 pm

The samples were supposed to have been inert for medical training but were discovered to potentially be live samples.Â

22 military personnel in South Korea possibly exposed to anthrax

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 2:54 am

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Steve Baluyot of the Biological Defense Research Directorate Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Md., loads unknown samples into capillary tubes for a Rugidized Advance Pathogen Identification Device analysis October 25, 2001 at the New York Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories, in New York, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Jim Varhegyi/Getty Images)

National Security

Military lab accidentally ships live anthrax samples

David Brown · May 27, 2015 9:11 pm

The USDA recommends that food should only be stored for no longer than two hours, and only one hour if the temperature is more than 90 degrees, said spokesman Chris Bernstein. (AP Photo)Â

Don’t sicken your guests at your Memorial Day BBQ

Robert King · May 23, 2015 9:00 am