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States will no longer be required to report how many children they vaccinate to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Increased human-animal interaction, driven by factors such as urbanization and deforestation, has created new opportunities for pathogens to jump species.
The drug was 81% effective against RSV hospitalization.
In another sign of growing vaccine hesitancy, a new report finds that the percentage of US toddlers vaccinated on time against measles, mumps and rubella has fallen since the COVID pandemic.
An 18-year-old welding apprentice in Louisiana represents the ninth known case of welder's anthrax in the US.
Officials don't know what caused gastrointestinal illness in 95 passengers and 9 crew on the Celebrity Eclipse in late December.
Syphilis rates have been rising in pregnant women and babies for about a decade.
The authors said that linkage-to-care rates may be higher overall if patients receive their viral load results sooner than a day after testing.
More than 50 counties in Arkansas have logged at least one case of whooping cough.
Grangeville is in northwest Idaho, in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains.
The country’s confirmed measles cases have grown to 2,065, up from 2,012 last week.
For flu, the sensitivity of the definition was 76% and specificity was 31%; for RSV, those numbers were 71% and 39%, respectively.
Risks rose steeply from 30 days to 1 year for RSV and flu patients.
A broiler farm in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, lost the largest number of birds, at 96,200.
Through December 10, the world has seen 502,264 chikungunya cases worldwide, with 291,451 in the Americas region alone.
The WHO prequalification confirms that the products meet WHO standards for quality, safety, and performance.
Compared with controls, nirsevimab was tied to an effectiveness of 62% against all-cause lower respiratory tract infection hospitalizations.
The US total reflects 54 new cases, as the country teeters on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.
Twenty people have been hospitalized, and the CDC says the true number of cases is likely much higher.
A study of the 4 leading bacterial causes of travelers' diarrhea found high nonsusceptibility to fluoroquinolones and macrolides, particularly in parts of Asia.
