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Since the government shutdown began Oct. 1, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped providing health surveillance data that helps state and local governments track disease ...

As the federal shutdown continues, states have been forced to fall back on their own resources to spot disease outbreaks — just as respiratory illness season begins. The shutdown has halted dashboards ...

A deadly measles outbreak in Texas ended in August, but outbreaks in other parts of the United States continue to add hundreds of new measles cases to this year’s record national total.There have been ...