(CNN) — Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, ...

LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Monday dismissed complaints from countries complaining that contact tracing is too difficult to implement as a control strategy for the ...

Contact tracing is a critical tool for containing a disease outbreak. For COVID-19, it’s also a key part of plans like the World Health Organization’s guidelines for easing distancing restrictions. So ...

Omicron’s high transmissibility has overstretched contact tracing capabilities globally, prompting the World Health Organization to issue interim guidance Feb. 17. In the update, the WHO said it ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Monday dismissed complaints from countries complaining that contact tracing is too difficult to implement as a control strategy for the coronavirus ...

Note: This story was updated to include Massachusetts, which began to share contact tracing data on its website on Wednesday. When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a ...

Jacqueline R. Evans, Florida International University; Christian Meissner, Iowa State University; Deborah Goldfarb, Florida International University, and Ian Jason Lee, Florida International ...

An investigation is underway as state Public Health officials are piecing together the first measles case in Connecticut since 2021. We’re told the child is under the age of 10, from Fairfield County, ...

Health departments in New Jersey and Minnesota where Trump had campaign events days earlier said they have begun contact tracing. The Cleveland Clinic said it is reaching out to guests who attended ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. AP LONDON — ...

One of the best tools we have to slow the spread of the coronavirus is, as you have no doubt heard by now, contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing, who does it and how, and do you need to ...