The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating some 450 employees laid off under the Trump administration's massive reduction of the federal workforce, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

The proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services slashes CDC and NIH funding in favor of the new Administration for a Healthy America.

Here’s what causes colds to spread so easily, how long they are usually contagious and how they’re most commonly treated.

The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.

It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. Read more from Helen Branswell, with additional reporting from STAT’s DC team.

The CDC estimates that 476,000 people may be diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease in the United States any given year. Regional Assistant Dean of the West Vir