The latest local dengue case in Los Angeles county isn't related to the cluster reported earlier this month.
Gavi's expanded vaccine portfolio fits its goal of ensuring that lower-income countries have access to key vaccines as soon as possible.
"The vaccine spillover effects that we document in our research underscore the importance of restoring trust in human vaccine safety and efficacy."
Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the end of 2020 had a higher mortality rate than those who received it in the first half of the year, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet.
In Brooklyn, New York, communities with higher rates of poverty and minorities may have less access to COVID-19 vaccination sites, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
A second fatal Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a person from North Kivu province, where the first case was recently reported in the wife of an Ebola survivor, according to media reports that cited a joint statement from the DRC and the World Health Organization (WHO).
New report finds that 70% of all fatal human rabies infections were caused by bats.
Other high-priority diseases include West Nile, plague, rabies, and brucellosis.
The federal government needs to develop better vaccine production capacity, support strong global security, and bolster nationwide public health to be better prepared for the next pandemic, a high-level tabletop exercise yesterday sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security found.
Two people who bought the salad have been treated as a precaution, but the CDC says rabies risk is low.
