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Health officials are releasing the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s number is larger than previous studies have suggested. It is likely boosted by some of the patients with long COVID. Chronic fatigue is characterized by at least six months of severe exhaustion not...

At least 117 people in 34 U.S. states have been sickened by contaminated cantaloupe, including 61 who were hospitalized and two who died, according to the CDC.

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year, which is the largest increase in two decades.

Health officials see Novavax’s protein-based vaccine as a valuable alternative for people who don’t want to take messenger RNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna.

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a post-sex morning after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.

The CDC specifically recommended that expectant mothers 32 to 36 weeks into their pregnancy receive the shot, Pfizer’s Abrysvo, from September through January.

A panel of CDC advisers voted Tuesday to recommend updated Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus booster shots for everyone ages 6 months and up.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted doctors Tuesday about a rise in severe cases of RSV among young children in Florida and Georgia.

Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria. This bacteria can also lead to a milder illness called Pontiac fever, which resembles flu-like symptoms.

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is an ancient disease that can cause damage to the skin and nervous system.

Here are some tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to treat mosquito bites

At least 100,000 people in the U.S. have become allergic to red meat since 2010 because of a weird syndrome triggered by tick bites, according to a government report.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said illnesses have been reported in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Ground beef is the only common food reported in the outbreak

The CDC analysis suggests the shots will reduce the burden of RSV on hospitals in the fall.

The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here’s everything you need to know about human metapneumovirus or HMPV, including symptoms and how long it lasts.

The virus causes many of the same symptoms as COVID, like a cough and sore throat, but despite not being as well-known, HMPV saw a big surge in cases throughout the spring. Here’s what to know. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

More than 1 in 3 people with invasive infections, meaning ones that affect the blood, heart or brain, die, according to the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control released findings last week of two cases of a “drug-resistant” infection in New York.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday.