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Sick Employees Urged to Stay Home to Avoid Risking Colleagues' Health

Physicians and public health experts urge employees that experience early symptoms of acute flu to s...

Feb 14, 2017 11:34 AM EST

Ex-government employee pleads guilty to hacking scheme

Former NRC employee pleads guilty to a federal computer crime when he admitted he planned to launch ...

Feb 04, 2016 07:20 PM EST

Drug manufacturers works with goverment to battle threat of superbugs

The overwhelming threat of drug-resistance infections causes threat to each and every one of us. Thi...

Jan 21, 2016 09:08 PM EST

Charlie Sheen says paid millions to blackmailers to keep HIV secret

Charlie Sheen, the wayward star of U.S. television comedy "Two and A Half Men," said on Tuesday he w...

Nov 18, 2015 09:37 AM EST

Tracing the path of South Korea's MERS 'patient zero'

Eight days after returning from a trip to the Middle East, a 68-year-old South Korean man developed ...

Jun 04, 2015 09:08 AM EDT

Hunger and frustration grow at Ebola ground zero in Guinea

A charred kapok tree and around a dozen graves scattered amongst the mud brick houses of Meliandou a...

Mar 03, 2015 06:38 PM EST

Just five Ebola cases left in Liberia, government says

Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirme...

Jan 23, 2015 09:06 PM EST

U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief

Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U...

Oct 13, 2014 11:10 PM EDT

U.S. defends Ebola response, about 50 under observation

U.S. officials on Friday broadly defended the response to the country's first case of Ebola, althoug...

Oct 03, 2014 08:52 PM EDT