The decline isn’t due to medical exemptions. they make up a tiny fraction of the exemptions allowed. More parents are opting ...

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In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was ...

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Rabies is an infectious disease that can be deadly to humans. In 2024, a total of 117 wild animals tested positive for rabies, according to officials.

Jordan Miller, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION ... As of Feb. 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let go. About 10% of the CDC’s staff have ...

Will RFK Jr., America's foremost vaccine skeptic, mobilize the shots to stop the worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades?

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, RSV cases increased 5.5% the week of Feb. 2-8 from the previous week.

Why the focus on a committee that has largely operated outside the public eye? Because the panel is instrumental to CDC's vaccine policymaking. The outside experts make recommendations for the ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA ... has been reported in more than a dozen humans exposed to infected poultry. The CDC noted on its website that bird flu’s risk to the public ...

"This is absolutely tragic," said one current CDC employee. "If we lose these people we lose important capacity and in a very real sense we lose our CDC future." The news filtered down through the ...