Vaccinations & Immunizations

CDC issues measles outbreak health advisory, encourages vaccination

March 21, 2024 - The CDC is urging healthcare providers to recommend and administer measles vaccines for patients six months and older in a recent Health Alert Network (HAN) Health advisory. In light of recent measles outbreaks nationwide, the advisory stresses that all eligible United States residents should be updated on their vaccinations before international...

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CDC’s Updated COVID Isolation Guidelines: Realistic or Relaxed?

by Veronica Salib

On Friday, March 1, 2024, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a press release revealing that it no longer recommends that individuals with COVID-19 isolate for...

Four States Identify Measles Outbreak This Year

by Veronica Salib

Throughout the past month, four states, including Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, confirmed measles cases, indicating a potential outbreak and sparking concerns about vaccination...

COVID Rates Surge Amidst the Holiday Season

by Veronica Salib

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) identifying high SARS-CoV-2 viral activity levels in...

Ultrasound Technology May Provide a New Vaccine Delivery Method

by Veronica Salib

Earlier this week, at Acoustics 2023 Sydney, a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Darcy Dunn–Lawless, discussed his research on a...

Severe COVID Alters Innate Immune System in Human, Animal Studies

by Veronica Salib

On August 18, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a press release announcing a potential link between severe COVID-19 and changes to the innate immune system. The National Institute...

Meningococcal Disease Cases Roughly Doubled in Patients with HIV

by Veronica Salib

A CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published last week revealed an increase in meningococcal disease among individuals with HIV in 2022. The report estimated that, compared to cases in...

Over 95% of People in the United States Have SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies

by Veronica Salib

A CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) evaluating antibodies among blood donors in the United States revealed that over 95% of people over 16 who donated blood between April 2021 and...

Most Americans Do Not Fully Understand the Link Between HPV and Cancer

by Veronica Salib

At the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Eric Adjei Boakye, PhD, shared survey data revealing that most Americans do not comprehensively understand the link between human...

Chicago Department of Public Health Tests for Polio in Wastewater

by Veronica Salib

In an announcement on March 17, 2023, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) stated that it is testing the wastewater for poliovirus, expanding current analysis and surveillance. The...

Parental Nonadherence to COVID Guidelines Threatens Pediatric Health

by Veronica Salib

On March 6, 2023, Andrea Levy, PhD, MBE, and her colleagues published a research letter in JAMA Network Open on parental nonadherence to COVID guidelines. The study’s results alarmed researchers...

CDC Reports 12 Pediatric Flu Deaths This Season

by Veronica Salib

The CDC FluView is the weekly reporting system for the United States influenza surveillance report. The most recent report was published on November 28, 2022, with updates for week 46, ending November...

RSV Rates Spike, Leaving Pediatric Hospitals at Capacity

by Veronica Salib

RSV — short for a respiratory syncytial virus — is a respiratory virus common in pediatric patients. According to the CDC, the virus is the most common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia...

Black People Are 80% More Likely to Be Hospitalized for Influenza

by Veronica Salib

As flu season approaches and healthcare professionals encourage the public to vaccinate against influenza, the CDC has analyzed the rates of hospitalization and vaccination across different racial and...

First Monkeypox Death Reported in the US

by Veronica Salib

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,...

First Pediatric Monkeypox Case Reported in New York

by Veronica Salib

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...

Pfizer Enters Phase Three Clinical Trial for Lyme Disease Vaccine

by Hayden Schmidt

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...

University of Missouri Researchers Identify COVID-19 Mutations

by Veronica Salib

As COVID-19 rates continue to fluctuate and new variants appear, researchers are looking to identify what makes the variants different and how that can alter disease management and prevention....

WHO Declares Monkeypox a Public Health Crisis

by Veronica Salib

On Saturday, July 23, 2022, the WHO declared monkeypox a public health crisis after the second International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting. According to the New England Journal...

First Polio Case Reported since 2013 in New York

by Veronica Salib

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,...

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