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As global proportions rapidly grow, an initial assessment suggests a low public health risk.
Without more data from China and further intelligence reports from governments, both zoonotic and lab-leak origin hypotheses remain on the table.
Leaders also committed $4.5 billion in additional financing.
Also, the group recommends Merck's RSV preventive for babies and weighs in on the upcoming season's flu vaccines.
Overall vaccine effectiveness was 29% against COVID-19–associated hospitalization.
A new study finds bacteria harboring resistance to ionophores, a class of antibiotics widely used in poultry, also carry resistance genes for medically important antibiotics.
Washington state has now recorded 10 measles cases in 2025.
Clinical trials of Jynneos have begun or will begin soon in infants and children 2 years old and younger, and in pregnant or breastfeeding women.
The new findings bring Maryland's total of confirmed CWD cases to 285 since the fatal prion disease was first confirmed in the state in 2011.
ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
In a pre-recorded video delivered to Gavi leaders, Kennedy accuses the group of ignoring vaccine safety concerns and said the US government will withhold financial support.
Global rates for several vaccines declined sharply in 2020, and had not returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels as of 2023.
Analysis of data from 14 African countries finds high AMR rates for key bug-drug combinations, but the study also reveals large gaps in testing capacity.
Among the findings, 90% of Democrats, 68% of Republicans, and 66% of MAGA supporters agree with school vaccine mandates.
Also, Utah now has 3 measles cases in unvaccinated adults.
US officials confirm the nation's first H5N1 avian flu detection in US dairy cattle in 3 weeks.
The announcement comes ahead of a summit that aims to raise at least $9 billion for Gavi, which helps provide vaccines to low-resource areas.
Secondary bacterial pneumonia rates were significantly higher in the RSV group.
Worldwide HPV vaccination coverage is only 27% for girls and women with the first dose and 20% for full doses, study finds.
The initial patient in Michigan's outbreak was exposed to a sick out-of-state traveler.