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Vaccine efficacy against symptomatic dengue was 65%.
The state had 8 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu in the past week in 3 counties.
Earlier this week, the CDC reaffirmed its commitment to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.
For the first since the Biden administration, vaccine advisers will meet tomorrow to recommend which strains of influenza virus to include in flu vaccines this fall.
The bright spots illuminate an otherwise cloudy picture for antibiotic development, according to the latest AMR Benchmark Report from the Access to Medicine Foundation.
The Middle East is the most dependent on assistance and humanitarian need of any world region.
Only 16% to 38% of non-hospitalized US COVID-19 patients aged 65 years and older were given an antiviral prescription.
Daily lab monitoring for thrombotic microangiopathy identified all future hemolytic uremic syndrome cases.
Reliance on sales tax for revenue may have factored into the length of stay-at-home orders.
The findings provide further evidence against the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis.
Cigarette smoking dropped from 10.8% in 2023 to 9.9% in 2024, while the use of other tobacco products, such as cigars and e-cigarettes, stayed flat.
Vaccination timing may also influence protection.
The West Coast is currently experiencing large clusters of HMPV activity.
Federal law states that acting directors at the CDC have 210 days to serve, after which the administration should name a nominee for the position.
Employees who work while sick have a roughly 30% higher likelihood of later absenteeism than those who don’t.
Questions linger about the drivers and potential consequences of increased prescription stimulant use among adults, the authors say.
HHS should make more information public about how it mitigates risks for experiments that make pathogens more transmissible or virulent, a new report says.
Prasad angered pharmaceutical giants and lawmakers last month when he pulled the review process from Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine.
In Utah, health officials are warning that measles patients are suffering from anemia and liver inflammation.
Although the study relies heavily on unverified reports to an FDA adverse events database, researchers say the findings warrant further investigation.
