The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

The move comes after a week of mixed messages on COVID vaccine recommendations. An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw the agency's recommendations for COVID-19 ...

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned from the agency, citing concerns that she would no longer be able to help the most vulnerable ...

Reuters first reported news of her resignation. Panagiotakopoulos and a CDC spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The process to update the CDC's influential vaccine ...

Official who resigned co-led work group on COVID-19 vaccine use Move follows RFK Jr.'s changes to vaccine immunization schedule without CDC advisers' input Vaccine advisory panel meeting set for ...

The CDC now advises all international travelers to be fully vaccinated against measles, regardless of destination, due to rising US cases. As of May 2025, 1,088 measles cases were confirmed in the ...

June 3 (Reuters) - Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the U.S. CDC resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID-19 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated advice on the COVID-19 vaccine days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said the agency would no longer ...

“The announcement from earlier this week sounded like CDC was going to fully withdraw any statement that could be construed as a recommendation for these vaccines in these populations,” said ...

Cases have been reported in all but 18 states this year, the CDC said Friday. New York and New York City are listed separately among the 33 jurisdictions listed. Two more states -- Iowa and ...

Updates to the CDC's childhood immunization schedule were published late Thursday, following an announcement earlier this week by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the ...

Since the beginning of the year, the CDC has received at least 62 reports of travelers who were contagious with the highly transmissible virus while flying into the U.S. or within the country ...