The country is juggling several health challenges, which is complicated by a humanitarian emergency and insecurity in the northeast.
Officials weigh in on an H3N8 flu case in China, Togo confirms a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak, and Michigan is grappling with fungal infections tied to a paper mill.
Since Nov 1, 2022, a total of 559 cases have been reported, 18 of them fatal, for a case-fatality rate of 2.3%.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported 29 more monkeypox cases, raising the nation's total to 142.
So far 24 states and the District of Columbia have reported cases, up from 21 in the CDC's last update. The most affected states include California, New York, Illinois, and Florida.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners today called for urgent action to address meningitis, while launching the first ever global strategy to battle the disease, called the Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030.
By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis—the deadliest form of the disease—and to reduce deaths by 70% and halve the number of cases, the WHO said in a press release.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a Health Alert Network notice to health providers warning that cases of measles and mumps have been detected in people recently evacuated from Afghanistan.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the creation of Public Health AmeriCorps through a partnership with the federal agency for volunteering and national service, AmeriCorps. The new program will help recruit, develop, and train new public health leaders.
Telephone consultations could be the reason why antibiotic prescribing at general practices in the United Kingdom was higher than expected during the first COVID-19 lockdown, researchers with the University of Nottingham reported yesterday in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The finding suggests that routine susceptibility testing of meningococcal isolates could help guide treatment and prevention.
Some isolates of the novel strain are resistant to both penicillin and ciprofloxacin, officials say.
