In addition to the hundreds of people in quarantine or isolation for measles, there are likely many more who are unaware they’ve been exposed during the normal course of their lives: Going to work, school, and church, shopping for groceries, dining out.
Prisma Health’s announcement came two days after Healthbeat revealed measles exposures in the labor and delivery unit at Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital and in the emergency department of Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Healthbeat exclusive: ‘Highly concerning’ measles exposure at hospital maternity unit plus exposures at BMW plant and Kentucky youth conference are among new details.
A UN-WHO scientific risk assessment is launched as U.S. regulators struggle to find the source of ByHeart botulism contamination.
Nearly all of those infected have been children and teens, and nearly all have been unvaccinated, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.
Ericka Brown, local health official for Harris County Public Health, aims to improve community wellness by addressing both the medical and social factors that contribute to health disparities.
Infant botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart formula prompts warnings to major retailers, calls for tougher regulation.
Healthbeat asked 10 of the nation's largest maternity hospitals and systems that deliver the most babies about their policies for giving hepatitis B vaccines at birth and whether they are changing. Most wouldn't answer.
‘They get to reintroduce public health to America,’ says former assistant surgeon general as he shares insights on his students, outbreaks and the crisis at CDC.
Universal infant and childhood vaccination against hepatitis B, recommended since 1991, has reduced by 99% the number of reported cases among U.S. children, adolescents, and young adults.