The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a list of documents to help hospitals and healthcare facilities to incorporate the law into their emergency and disaster preparedness plans.

Since 2002, CDC has distributed more than $5 billion of federal funding to improve public health preparedness and response. In its report, “Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State,” CDC ...

Travelers to tsunami-affected areas may return with a variety of physical problems, including fever, respiratory illness, dehydration, diarrhea or other gastrointestinal disturbance, rash, injuries, ...

LANSDOWNE – A Delaware County woman who devoted her professional life to emergency preparedness was one of two people from Pennsylvania recognized by the CDC for her work. Betsy Walls was recognized ...

The Standing Committee for CDC Center for Preparedness and Response (SCPR), sponsored by CDC, provides a forum for discussion of scientific, technical, and social issues relevant to public health ...

Only states prepared public health emergency include 20 states ranked high in readiness by Trust for America’s Health in 2026 report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated a Level 3 hantavirus response while stressing that the overall ...

WASHINGTON -- More than five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a ...

Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and healthcare providers worldwide rely on each other to protect the public's health ― especially during emergencies, disasters, and ...

Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-section through ...