Category: Public Health

As the fall and winter months approach, health officials are anticipating omicron-targeting booster doses will help stave off infection and severe illness. 

The CDC’s new plan to accelerate its response to health threats, simplify public messaging and improve data capabilities is a step in the right direction, but more work must be done to address the root cause of the agency’s three largest problems: slow…

Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. has fallen to 76.1 years, the lowest it has been since 1996, according to provisional data the CDC published Aug. 31. 

The CDC released guidelines for clinicians on how to handle suspected polio cases.

The U.S. confirmed its first monkeypox death Aug. 30 as the virus continues to spread nationwide, surpassing 18,000 total cases.

Nearly 4 out every 5 children have evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to CDC estimates. 

Health officials in Harris County, Texas, said a resident with various severe illnesses who was also presumed to be positive for monkeypox died Aug. 28 at a local hospital. 

While large pustules are characteristic of monkeypox, patients infected amid the current outbreak have presented with a broad range of symptoms, physicians told The New York Times in an Aug. 26 report. 

The CDC has detected polio in four wastewater samples from Sullivan County in New York.