An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.
The expansion of wastewater monitoring for polio comes amid pressure to increase efforts to fight the disease after the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade was discovered in July.
The flu has hospitalized a record number of people this season, underscoring the potential for a perilous winter of respiratory viruses with covid-19 and RSV.
Advocates who have called for TPoxx, the only drug available to treat monkeypox, to be more widely available criticized the government’s guidance as too hasty, given ongoing unequal access to vaccination and treatment.
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to fight the disease after the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade was discovered in Rockland County, N.Y.