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The Centers for Disease Control estimates 1 out of every 88 American children has been diagnosed with a disorder on the autism spectrum, reports Michelle Miller.

Soiled plates in the clean buffet stack, missing safety signage and more than 30 fruit flies, dead and alive, were recently discovered on Monarch of the Seas by inspectors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As many as 35 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia among adults over 60 years of age. That figure could reach 115 million by 2050 , concludes the nonprofit Alzheimer's Disease International .

The death toll from listeriosis infections linked to contaminated cantaloupes is expected to rise in the coming weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today. So far, the outbreak has sickened 72 people and killed at least 13, the CDC said.

Some Michigan hospitals are making flu shots and other vaccines mandatory for employees. The flu shot or the pink slip? This year that will be the choice for some Michigan health care workers

Last year 10 children died in California in the worst whooping cough outbreak to sweep the state since 1947. In the first six months of 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 10 measles outbreaks--the largest of which (21 cases) occurred in a Minnesota county, where many children were unvaccinated because of parental concerns about the safety of the standard MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. At least seven infants in the county who were too young to receive the MMR vaccine were infected.

Heat-related illnesses that strike during a sport or recreational activity send nearly 6,000 people in the U.S. to emergency rooms every year, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

When the AIDS epidemic first surfaced in the U.S.

A recent article on the Al Jazeera English web site cites a disturbing statistic: infant mortality in certain U.S. Northwest cities spiked by 35 percent in the weeks following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant . The author writes that "physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and [ sic ] may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.” The implication is clear: Radioactive fallout from the plant is spreading across the Pacific in sufficient quantities to imperil the lives of children (and presumably the rest of us as well)

A vaccine to prevent shingles has been available for five years, but few Americans are getting it. Next week, a panel from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider recommending its wider use.

New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in four drinks has daily soda

The German disease control center said locally grown sprouts - ruled out for a time - are the cause of the E.coli breakout that killed 29 people and sickened 2900. Jeff Glor reports.

The E. coli outbreak that started in Germany is getting bigger and a lot scarier.

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More than half of Americans take dietary supplements, with the multivitamin being the most commonly used, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.