The zombies are coming! Well ... not really. But Napa County officials want local residents prepared for any disaster — real or imagined. This fall, Napa County Public Health is launching a ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

There have been dozens of cases in the U.S. including one death, though risk remains low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But several recent developments in the ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

It was sent on President Donald Trump’s first full day in office. That’s concerning, former CDC officials said, because a firewall has long existed between the agency’s scientific reports an ...

Headquartered in Geneva, the World Health Organization may not be a household name like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) but it's been around for nearly 80 years. "The World ...

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Interested contributors have until 1 May 2025 to submit abstracts for the IAEA's International Conference on Emergency Preparedness and Response. The conference will be held from 1 December to 4 ...

Xylazine, increasingly referred to as a "zombie drug," has powerful sedative effects. Currently, the drug is not scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). According to the DEA ...