The CDC’s reluctance to provide transparent information about current disease outbreaks leaves Americans vulnerable.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he would remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation for children and healthy pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, statisticians, and advisors who specialized in lead exposures and responses.

Health emergencies have not paused since January as cases of measles, salmonella, listeria and hepatitis A and C have spread throughout the country.

Measles cases have reached 1,046 as the virus continues spreading across the United States, according to data updated Friday from the CDC.

As summer heats up, families will be heading to pools, water parks, rivers and lakes to cool off.But with bodies of water comes the risk of drowning.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,