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The first Americans affected by the policy are 7 aid workers who had been responding to the DR Congo outbreak.
Fifteen countries have strict restrictions on traveling to and from Uganda, including the US.
Kids may be adorable, but their immature immune systems, lack of hygiene, and other factors make them efficient vectors of disease.
Preventive steps included administering antibiotics and the Cyfendus vaccine, and none of the 13 people exposed to anthrax via livestock contracted the disease.
Measles erasing your ability to fight infection long term. Hospitalization. Brain swelling. None of this shows up in a case-fatality rate.
Improving maternal vaccine uptake before, during, or soon after pregnancy may boost child immunizations, for continuous protection early in life.
Physicians at the South Carolina hospital system note that 2 patients developed measles encephalitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the brain.
The USDA also reported 8 new H5N1 detections in cattle.
A new study finds that children receiving the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine are more likely to be vaccinated in safety-net clinics or eligible for the Vaccines for Children program.
The nominee for assistant secretary for preparedness and response has a track record of vaccine skepticism.
A Senate committee questions President Trump’s nominee about her support for vaccines and willingness to stand up to RFK Jr, with mixed results.
UN officials note some increases in childhood vaccination worldwide, but more work needs to be done to reach zero-dose children and combat vaccine hesitancy.
More than 750 have died from Ebola in the past 2 months.
Currently 12 patients are hospitalized for Legionnaires’ disease.
As the outbreak continues, identifying the source of Cyclospora remains a challenge.
The concerning trend appears to be driven by parents refusing vitamin K shots, which guard against a rare but life-threatening blood disorder, for their newborns.
Although many consider measles a mild disease, this report describes 49 patients who required hospital care, 8% of the total.
Sen. Mitch McConnell is one of up to 300,000 Americans living with post-polio syndrome, a set of symptoms that occur decades after the original infection.
The antiviral would be given as post-exposure prevention.
The case-fatality rate this year is now 24%.
