@PopSci / X screen shot Invasive Asian 'Cow-Killing' Tick Has Rapidly Crept Across America, CDC Warns The Asian longhorned tick is rapidly gaining a foothold in the United States and poses a "serious threat to livestock," according to the USDA. By Stefanie Ladner December 25, 2023
Dusan Atlagic / Getty ImagesCommentary It's Beginning to Look Like Fatal Outbreak Came from Mexico, Children 5x More Likely to Die The CDC has issued an advisory for an outbreak that threatens young children. It has both alarming and encouraging news. By Michael Schwarz December 11, 2023
JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock CDC Draws Heat for Erasing Women with 'Pregnant People' in Adopting Gender-Neutral Terms for Health Guidance The CDC has replaced the word "woman" with "pregnant people" as part of its recommendations promoting COVID-19 and flu vaccines. By Ben Kew December 5, 2023
Paul Sakuma / AP PepsiCo Announces It's Changing Lay's Potato Chip Formula to Meet World Health Organization Standards In the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Americans consume over 3,400 mg per day of sodium on average. By Andrew Jose November 28, 2023
PAUL J. RICHARDS - AFP / Getty Images Fatal Fruit: 'Wake-Up Call' Infectious Outbreak Crosses Border, New Death Confirmed One doctor called this a "further wake-up call that produce grown in a place where the U.S. has little to no control" is sold here. By Bryan Chai November 26, 2023
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Three More Brands Named in Growing Recall, FDA Announces Number of Sickened Consumers Has Doubled Nearly 100 people in 32 states have gotten sick from the contaminated fruits, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By The Associated Press November 24, 2023
Dr. D.S. Martin, Smith Collection - Gado / Getty Images Skin-Disfiguring Parasite That Plagues Middle East, Latin America and Asia Now Detected in US, CDC Warns The parasite causes a disease known as Leishmaniasis, resulting in skin sores that develop weeks after the bite has occurred. By Ben Kew November 23, 2023
Tyler Olson / Shutterstock CDC Reports Largest Increase in Infant Mortality Rate in 20 Years, Experts Baffled at Trend Reversal After falling every year from 2002 to 2021, America's infant mortality rate took a puzzling jump in 2022, according to new data from the CDC. By Jack Davis November 6, 2023
David Ryder / Getty ImagesCommentary New COVID Shots Roll Out, Devastating Results Show What Happens When Government Can't Force It on People At the height of COVID hysteria, in many places, you couldn't go to a movie theater or a restaurant unless you were jabbed. By Samantha Chang October 30, 2023
Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images CDC Rules Out Deadly 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba in Mysterious Arizona Infection Officials sent samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to learn whether the case was caused by the deadly amoeba. By Lorri Wickenhauser October 29, 2023