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The nation’s opioid crisis is threatening to undo decades of HIV prevention work, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…

Rates of three common sexually transmitted diseases have risen to a record high level nationwide, and St. Louis continues to rank high among cities,…

The breed of mosquito most likely to carry the Zika virus probably won’t make its way to St. Louis this summer, but local public health agencies are still…

As of Friday, at least 31 people in the U.S. have been infected with the Zika virus. That includes three pregnant women — two in Illinois and one in New…

William Stage, a former investigator for the Centers for Disease Control in St. Louis and longtime writer for the Riverfront Times, is back with a new…

Rumors of a link between autism and the measles vaccine persist, although the original paper that claimed the link, as well as its author, have been…

After test results confirmed that a nurse in Dallas had contracted the deadly Ebola virus from a patient, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and…

Missouri is still near the bottom of the pack when it comes to childhood vaccination rates.The results of the CDC's annual National Immunization Survey…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 2, 2011 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set up a call center system to begin…

Missouri is doing a better job of getting toddlers vaccinated for childhood diseases.Results of the CDC’s National Immunization Survey show Missouri rose…