The group said HHS Secretary Kennedy is complicit in dismantling the US public health infrastructure and endangering the nation’s health by sowing scientific misinformation.
The CDC reported five more influenza-associated pediatric deaths, bringing the total for the 2024-25 flu season to 275.
The strain is genetically related to one that caused a 2012-14 reptile-related outbreak of 160 cases in 35 states.
In US developments, New Jersey health officials are tracking transit exposures linked to the state's latest confirmed case.
In other developments, Wisconsin has 5 more cases from Oconto County and Pennsylvania's health department warned of exposure in 4 counties visited by a sick out-of-state traveler.
Emergency department visits are rising for all age groups and are highest in young children.
The vaccine, called OVX836, is designed to target the nucleoprotein (NP) of the influenza A virus, which is a highly conserved and less likely to mutate.
So far, US federal officials have not confirmed any cases in animals this year.
The case marks Alabama's first since 2002 and involves an unvaccinated child exposed during international travel.
Health officials say he might have been exposed to Yersinia pestis while camping in Rio Arriba County in northern New Mexico.
HHS says the last time NWS was detected in animals or livestock in the United States was in the Florida Keys in 2017.
Since 2024, antibiotic-resistant pertussis cases have been detected in 4 nations in the Americas: Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the US.
South Korean diagnostics company QuantaMatrix will receive $2.85 million to advance work on a test that can diagnosis sepsis in newborns within 6 hours from very small blood samples.
The absolute rate difference ranged from 1.2 to 2.2 fewer events per 1,000 person-years among all vaccinated adults.
Maryland-based Zeteo Tech will receive $1 million to advance work on a novel test that can diagnose LRTIs from exhaled breath.
Ensitrelvir, also known as Xocova, is already approved for use in Japan.
Two people have been hospitalized in Wisconsin's outbreak centered in Oconto County.
An analysis of national action plans finds a 'marked divide' in how high-income and low-income countries are able to respond to AMR.
The 2 cases add to what is the worst year for measles in the US since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.
The H5N1 finding in Wisconsin is part of a recent rise in poultry outbreaks in a handful of Midwestern states.
The findings highlight the importance of environmental and anthropogenic factors in shaping the transmission dynamics of the disease, the authors say.
Among non–US-born individuals treated at community health centers, only 1 in 3 were tested for TB.
The 3 recent cases are unrelated, but the fact that all 3 people had not traveled internationally indicates that local person-to-person spread is likely.
Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The findings suggest that antenatal corticosteroids should be used judiciously, given the potential long-term effects in otherwise healthy full-term and preterm children, the authors say.
