Everyone should pay attention, according to doctors.

The CDC’s 2026 threats report ranks 19 drug-resistant pathogens, with four rated urgent, and says C. diff has dropped to a ...

The CDC ranks four germs as urgent threats, its most dangerous category: Candida auris, a fungus that spreads in hospitals and nursing homes and resists most antifungal drugs (cases soared from 48 in ...

CDC data reveals stark differences in MRSA drug resistance across U.S. states as officials warn it remains a serious threat.

A new report from the CDC shows and increase in drug-resistant "superbugs" across the United States. Experts say that washing ...

Drug-resistant germs cause an estimated 9.7 million infections each year.

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...

In a follow-up to Infection Control Today's (ICT's) article on the CDC's Antimicrobial Resistance Threats in the US 2021-2022 release, Michael Craig, MPP, director of CDC's Antimicrobial Resistance ...

Learn how the CDC weighs treatment options, spread, and future infections to assess drug-resistant germs — and why death tolls tell only part of the story.