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Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.
“Critical programs in the CDC will continue under Secretary Kennedy’s vision to streamline HHS to better serve Americans. CDC ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and ...
The federal government’s ability to investigate disease outbreaks on cruise ships was dealt a severe blow recently. CBS News reports that all full-time employees at the Centers for Disease Control and ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts ...
The stomach flu is a virus and tends to last longer; food poisoning has many possible causes. Hydration is the key to ...
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...
The CDC marked a major uptick in group A strep cases in 10 U.S. states from 2013 to 2022. Here's what to know about risk of ...
USC currently tests wastewater for influenza, norovirus and coronavirus.
Q: You have written that people can’t catch anything from a toilet seat. I beg to disagree! Diarrhea viruses can linger around toilets. I have been reading about norovirus and the amount of virus that ...
The most recent inspection was Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria on March 14, 2025, receiving a score of 96 out of 100. On March ...
A major overhaul of the agency that began with thousands of layoffs on April 1 axed a critical environmental health division ...