Lena H. Sun

The meeting of disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drew 1,800 attendees.

The CDC issued a health advisory and a travel advisory after five women developed meningitis following surgical procedures in the border city of Matamoros.

The end of the covid public health emergency highlights longstanding vulnerabilities of a technologically weak and fractured public health surveillance system.

Walensky’s two-year tenure at the CDC included the successful rollout of coronavirus vaccines, but was also marked by criticism for other pandemic stumbles.

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Attendees say many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions recommended earlier in the pandemic.

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My mother was one of more than 1 million Americans who died of covid. We are a nation awash in grief, an experience of loss that forced us to find new ways to mourn — and carry on.

A recent health advisory described these infections as a “serious public health threat.”

Infections of shigellosis are on the rise, and an increasing number of cases are caused by strains that resist treatment with common antibiotics.