The COVID-19 pandemic and its knock-on effects have contributed to a 2.7-year decline in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021, and some demographics’ life expectancies have fallen even lower,...
Monkeypox is a smallpox-like zoonotic orthopoxvirus in the poxviridae family. The WHO declared a public health emergency after the 2022 outbreak caused the virus to spread. Since the viral spread,...
A recent Escherichia Coli (E. coli) outbreak was found after people in Michigan and Ohio reported symptoms of illness. While monitoring the outbreak, the CDC identified eight additional cases of E....
According to the CDC, as of August 18, 2022, New York state had 2,744 reported cases of monkeypox, making it the state with the highest rate of infections. As the monkeypox public health crisis has...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to progress, studying the long-term effects of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been an important area of study. On August 17, 2022, Lancet Psychiatry...
Because environmental changes — like rising temperatures — are known to expand habitats that are survivable for numerous pathogens, human pathogenic diseases are heavily impacted by the...
Pfizer and specialty vaccine company Valneva are set to begin testing their VLA15 vaccine in 6,000 individuals across areas in the US and Europe where tickborne Lyme disease is highly endemic. The...
Previous data have suggested that the rates of Lyme disease and other tickborne illnesses have risen in the past few years. A recent press release by Fair Health quantifies this increased rate using...
According to a CDC health alert, Burkholderia pseudomallei, a bacterium that causes melioidosis, was found in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, making it the first reported case of the bacteria in the...
Science recently published two studies looking at the epidemiology of the COVID-19 virus. Understanding where the virus began and spread may help inform public health practices to mitigate the spread...
The Rockland County Health Department in New York recently announced the first polio case since 2013 in an unvaccinated adult patient. Increased vaccine hesitancy has led to lower vaccination rates,...
A CDC report on antimicrobial resistance found that hospital-onset infections and deaths from antimicrobial-resistant infections rose 15% during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. Data...
The CDC advised college and university students, as well as gay and bisexual men living in parts of Florida, to get the MenB or MenACWY vaccine as an outbreak of meningococcal disease takes hold in the...
Trichomoniasis — caused by Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) — is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that is often present without symptoms but can cause serious complications if left...
Last week, the Lancet published an observational study that concluded a reduced risk of developing long COVID when infected with the omicron versus the delta variant. The CDC defines long COVID,...
According to a 2022 study published in BMJ Global Health, the global prevalence of Lyme disease has increased to 14.5%. Many sources attribute this increase to the impending climate change crisis. As...
The FDA, CDC, and state and local partners have been investigating a recent hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries in the United States and Canada.
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CDC officials are releasing doses of the JYNNEOS vaccines and pledging to boost the national stockpile after multiple cases of the rare disease, monkeypox, emerged in the United States. Currently, the...
In a recent announcement, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has pledged $20 million this year, and up to $300 million over the next 10 years, to combat antibiotic microbial resistance...
