Centers For Disease Control And Prevention

What’s HMPV, the ‘most important virus you've never heard of’?

Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is an illness that affects the upper respiratory system, causing similar COVID-19 symptoms, such as cough, sore throat, and fever. While it can affect people of all ages, the risk is higher for children, older adults, and those with compromised immune systems

Explained: Candida auris, the deadly fungus spreading across the US

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said the Candida auris is spreading at an ‘alarming rate’ and that 30 to 60 per cent of infected have died. Some strains of the fungus are resistant to antibiotics – making it deadly to the elderly and the immunocompromised

Medical tourism: Why Americans seek treatment in other countries?

Medical care in countries like Mexico can be more than 50 per cent cheaper than it is in the US. This travel is popular with people who have no health insurance or plans that make them pay thousands of dollars before coverage begins

After Ohio train wreck, US President Joe Biden orders federal agencies to conduct door-to-door checks

Teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will visit homes. Workers will ask how residents are doing, see what they need and connect them with appropriate resources from government and nonprofit organizations

US announces $122 million fund to Indian medical research institutes to address challenges posed by infectious diseases

The funding will be distributed over a period of five years to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Institute of Virology (NIV) and National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE)

US officials extend mask rule for travel by a month while considering road ahead

The mask mandate was scheduled to expire 18 March, but the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that it will extend the requirement through 18 April.

US health agency recommends shorter COVID-19 isolation, quarantine amid surging cases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop

US makes COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all border crossers like truck drivers, govt officials from 22 January

Essential travellers entering by ferry will also be required to be fully vaccinated by the same date

US CDC issues 'Level One' COVID-19 travel health notice for Americans travelling to India

However, the US State Department issued level two and three travel advisories for India and Pakistan

US lifts pandemic travel ban at airports and land borders from today; only vaccinated travellers allowed

According to CDC, the US will accept travellers who have been fully vaccinated with any of the vaccines approved for emergency use by the World Health Organisation, not just those in use in the US