Vaccine advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today recommended switching the SARS-CoV-2 strain from the XBB.1.5 variant to JN.1 for fall vaccine formulations. The recommendation marks ...

Ethiopia is experiencing its worst malaria outbreak in 7 years, with more than 7.3 million cases reported since the first of ...

For the flu vaccine, uptake was highest in the Mountain region (84.5%) and lowest in the Pacific region (74.3%) for acute ...

Expanded screening criteria helped a New York City hospital identify more patients who were colonized with the ...

Studies conducted in 29 African countries showed the overall pooled prevalence of Shigella bacteria was 5.9%, with concerning ...

Elsewhere, three African countries reported more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases—Chad (3 cases), ...

Ethiopia is experiencing its worst malaria outbreak in 7 years, with more than 7.3 million cases reported since the first of the year, along with 1,157 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said ...

Two new studies highlight body mass index (BMI) in children during the COVID-19 pandemic, with one finding a 25% and 42% ...

Routine childhood vaccine uptake among US kindergarteners in public and private schools declined to less than 93% in the 2023-24 school year, down from 95% in 2019-20 and 93% in 2022-23. At the same ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been identified at a Kerr County, Texas, deer farm, the county's first confirmed detection, ...

Yesterday Rwanda reported one new Marburg virus case — a known contact of an earlier case, but officials said they were ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that fresh slivered onions served on Quarter Pounder ...