Acting CDC director on hantavirus: ‘This is not COVID’

Director Jay Bhattacharya said Sunday that hantavirus “is not COVID,” in reference to an outbreak of the virus on a Dutch ...
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CDC boss douses media’s hopes for COVID sequel

With the media sting fears over a potential sequel to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC’s acting director dropped a reality ...

CDC leader says hantavirus not "a five-alarm fire bell"

Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CBS News that the hantavirus ...
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CDC Director’s Nomination Is an Opportunity to Reconstitute the CDC

A window has opened to repair the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reconstitute it to meet new realities, and regain essential bipartisan trust and confidence among the ...
CNBC

Trump nominates Erica Schwartz as CDC director amid turmoil around leadership, vaccine policy

President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has been going through turmoil and several leadership ...
Healio

Support for CDC pick offset by ‘worrying’ ACIP update

Experts voiced support for the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, a deeply credentialed physician with public health ...

Inside the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in DRC as the virus spreads

Hélène Akilimali says she’s taking every precaution against contracting Ebola, including always wearing a face mask in public ...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak 'public health emergency' of international concern

In light of the reported outbreaks of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the World Health Organisation (WHO), under the International Health Regulations (IHR), ...