Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Environmental Protection Agency announced drinking water providers will have 10 years to identify and remove lead pipes across the country.

A routine flu screening in late summer found the H5N1 virus in a Missouri patient. Unlike the other reported cases, this person did not report being in recent contact with animals.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services detected the first human case of H5 bird flu in Missouri. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the case. Infection transmission among the public remains low.

Wastewater tests are designed to provide an early warning system so that public health officials can ward off outbreaks.

As Cahokia Heights residents found themselves continuously sick with respiratory conditions, heart problems, and bacterial infections they had one question — where were the health officials?

Residents in parts of north St. Louis and north St. Louis County will have the opportunity to access healthier food options and physical activities through a $3.8 million community health grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The United States Army has granted $1.2 million to a University of Missouri researcher to study combat wound infections. The research will focus on non-intravenous, topical and localized antibiotic treatments.

St. Louis health officials have reported the city’s first probable case of monkeypox. The case has not been confirmed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the CDC has recently confirmed three cases of monkeypox in Missouri.

Local public health programs at the forefront of the nation’s pandemic relief efforts, particularly for poor people without health insurance who are most at risk of getting sick, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told Washington University medical students on Thursday.

Younger children, who cannot yet be vaccinated, are among those who may be more susceptible to the more-contagious variant.