President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Francis Collins, MD, PhD, an Obama administration holdover, will stay on as permanent director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), multiple media sites reported.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today finalized its cholera vaccine recommendation for adults traveling to disease outbreak areas, based on June 2016 advice from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
According to the report, 325 million people, or 4% of the world's population, lives with viral hepatitis.
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) reported one new case of MERS-CoV today in a woman who had indirect contact with camels.
Hepatitis C testing prevalence rose only slightly, from 12.3% to 13.8%, from 2013 to 2015.
In today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health officials said rancid tortilla chips were to blame for an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that sickened 79 workers and inmates at a correctional facility in Wyoming a year ago.
Local and US health officials today reported that 25 people in Southern California have contracted meningitis C, most of them men who have sex with men (MSM).
A meta-analysis by German researchers yielded the conclusion that healthcare personnel (HCP) faced about twice as high a risk of H1N1 infection as other groups during the 2009 influenza pandemic, says a report published yesterday in PLoS One.
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) yesterday issued a public health alert over the risk of Salmonella infection related to preparing and consuming whole hogs for pig roasts, after investigation into a recent outbreak in Washington state linked illnesses to Kapowsin Meats for a second year in a row.
In its weekly yellow fever situation report, the World Health Organization (WHO) today noted 73 more cases of the disease in Angola, bringing that country's suspected cases to 3,625.
