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NACCHO selects 5 local health departments as mentors and 11 as mentees for the 2025 Wastewater Monitoring Mentorship Program.
Vaccine supply shortage comes at a bad time, as African countries make headway with their outbreaks and have seen good uptake in affected populations.
The April RSV, meningococcal, and chikungunya vaccine recommendations from the previous ACIP panel are now official policy.
With brisk activity in Canada, Mexico, and the US, cases in the Americas region are up 29-fold compared to a year ago.
Compared with flu vaccine recipients, those given the RSV and/or shingles vaccine had 18% to 37% lower odds of receiving a dementia diagnosis in the next 18 months.
Relative to before the pandemic, the number of vaccinated participants fell 10% among children and 4% in adults in pandemic year 1, dropping 19% and 14%, respectively, the next year.
Older people, those in excellent health, and those who trust the healthcare system were most likely to say they would test.
Shionogi will pay BioVersys $6.3 million for developing BV500, BioVersys's drug candidate for non-tuberculous mycobacteria.
The preventable deaths include those of 4.5 million preschool children.
North America had the highest detections among bovine manure samples.
New Mexico reported more infections from a county where an outbreak was reported at a jail.
In a related development, details surfaced about another recent fatal case in a young child.
Recent mosquito-borne illness patterns in Europe reflect the growing geographic spread and public health impact of the diseases.
Maternal vaccination reduced the risk of influenza by 51% for infants up to 2 months old.
Declines were seen in the domains of executive function and memory, while language was unaffected.
The patients had contact with sick poultry, a feature of most H5N1 infections in Cambodia.
For the 2024-25 school year, only 87% of Kentucky kindergartners were fully vaccinated against measles.
Amid promising signs, officials urged caution, noting that the outbreaks vary by clade, response measures, and social behaviors.
The company said an mRNA flu vaccine has the potential to more closely match circulating strains.
Experts warn that the federal vaccine advisory group's decision to revisit childhood immunizations and its controversial vote on thimerosal will undermine confidence in vaccines.
