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The CDC says drug-resistant bacteria and fungi cause 9.7 million infections and 50,800 US deaths a year.
High levels of intestinal inflammation are linked to post-vaccination fever.
The gap between the diseases we fear and the actual dangers we face is significant. This Halloween, CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm outlines the public health threats that worry him most.
Beginning November 3, international travelers to the US must attest they have not been in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently.
The second patient to die in Kenya was a close relative of the index patient.
The province has the world’s highest rates of the fatal neurodegenerative disease in animals such as deer, elk, and moose.
This week Pennsylvania recorded 88 new infections and Wisconsin 82.
Both a new system to pay doctors for reporting vaccine harms and a new clinic are built in a way that will increase recorded injuries whether or not actual injuries rise.
We talk about a promising mRNA cancer vaccine, a worrisome vaccine injury clinic, a measles test, and a misrepresented study on flu vaccination.
Jessica Richman’s daughter Cayden died of influenza at age 3. Flu vaccination may have saved her other daughter’s life.
