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An analysis finds that, while all regions were affected, low-resource areas were hit hardest.
A new study provides compelling data on how vaccination prevents deaths and serious illness—and the lasting family pain behind the statistics.
A new study finds that 1.3% of children under age 5 were exposed to someone in the home with hepatitis B, a highly contagious but vaccine-preventable disease.
The fatal neurologic disease was identified in Deer Hunt Area 141 in Wyoming, Marinette County in Wisconsin, and a farm in Michigan’s Hillsdale County.
Also, Kenyan officials confirm a 9th case in that country, 4 of which have been in healthcare workers.
Supporters of people with HIV/AIDS rallied at the IDWeek 2026 conference in Washington, DC.
Infectious disease epidemics could account for an average annual shortfall of 17,500 healthcare workers worldwide.
Women living in the southern and western parts of the country and those in some racial and age groups are less likely to be screened.
Offering HPV shots to children at ages 9 or 10 increases vaccination rates compared with providing the immunization at 11 or 12.
The University of Southern Denmark approved the hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau earlier this month.
The state had not seen the disease in decades.
At the same time, confidence in the safety of longstanding vaccines, including MMR and polio, remains high.
Changing language on vaccines can mislead people into thinking there’s new evidence about them, when the science hasn’t changed.
The raw oysters were from the Little Wicomico River harvest area in Virginia.
Also, new data show that 1 in 4 new patients in North Kivu, DR Congo, are children.
It remains unclear to what extent security safeguards were followed when DOGE officials accessed agency systems.
$1.9 billion was awarded to multi-year–funded programs this year.
While nearly all hospitals had implemented surveillance for urinary tract infections by the end of the study, other strategies need to be embedded in routine care, the authors say.
An analysis of children and adolescents in Sweden found those who took antibiotics had 1.5 times higher odds of IBS by age 24 compared with those who didn’t.
A survey finds that emphasizing the share of people who do and don’t engage in non-recommended antibiotic behaviors didn’t affect respondents’ willingness to engage in those behaviors.
