Infectious diseases
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Public health leaders see this year’s World Cup as the world’s largest temporary migration into the United States’ most densely populated urban corridor. They are planning accordingly.
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.
The network aims to rapidly detect and respond to public health threats and emergencies. The different entities receive direct access to early-warning alerts and outbreak intelligence, along with training and exercises.
The Trump administration has told the global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing thimerosal as a condition of funding. The preservative is at the center of conspiracy theories, but any link to autism has been debunked.
Healthbeat exclusive: ‘Highly concerning’ measles exposure at hospital maternity unit plus exposures at BMW plant and Kentucky youth conference are among new details.
A global health expert said that with this move, the United States has 'made itself much more vulnerable to disaster and devastation when the next epidemic or pandemic hits.'
Also in New York health news: Two cases of Legionnaires' disease in Harlem, code temps forecast, and the ripple effects of ICE in communities.
From effective outbreak control to promising new research, a few developments that suggest key parts of the global health system are still functioning well, even under strain.
Merging organizations that have overlapping mandates could do more than cut costs. 'One institution with a broader mandate could improve efficiency and be better at building health systems,' one expert said.
I came to a town hall meeting to talk about facts. Residents came to talk about injustice. That was the night I learned that relationships always come first, and facts come second.
Before eradication, screwworm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in financial losses each year in the U.S. Ranchers spent enormous time and money on treatment and prevention in cattle.
Infant botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart formula prompts warnings to major retailers, calls for tougher regulation.
Many clinicians and epidemiologists fear abandoning the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could reverse three decades of progress toward eliminating a disease that still infects as many as 2.4 million Americans and kills tens of thousands each year.
Marco Rubio praises the ‘America First’ agreement as a new approach. How old challenges play out remains to be seen.
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.
Meanwhile, flu and RSV cases are increasing across the city and state.
A scientist recalls watching the movie and realizing he didn’t want to be the person who knew how government was controlled, but rather the person who was on the ground with the people affected.
Eli Lilly is building a new plant in the Netherlands to produce a pill form of its popular Mounjaro injection. About two-thirds of the world’s 1 billion obese adults live outside the developed world. Will they be able to get the medicine?
The Tulane National Biomedical Research Center drew national attention in 2015 when a deadly foreign-strain of bacteria escaped one of the center’s high-containment laboratories.
As CDC systems are dismantled, the idea of a coordinated national response to a health emergency seems as fictional as zombies themselves.