Health officials urge vaccination against the highly contagious virus, which has caused 121 infections in the country this year Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent The measles virus as seen through ...
The Marburg virus is a member of the filoviridae (filoviruses) family. The disease has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days, according to WHO. It then manifests its symptoms suddenly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling for action to increase U.S. measles immunization amid a rise in cases that could threaten the nation’s status as one where the ...
The CDC is taking the US bird flu outbreak 'very seriously' amid growing fears the virus could jump to humans and cause an epidemic. A farm worker in Texas became the second American ever to be ...
In 2000, after a decadeslong public health battle and a Herculean vaccination program, the US won a coveted status: measles elimination. The designation means that the extremely infectious measles ...
Many regions across the United States experienced "record-breaking high temperatures" in 2023 due to extreme heat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Emergency room ...
The Texas patient who contracted bird flu had only a single symptom and that was consistent with a very common disease, it has emerged. The infected person, reportedly a worker in the dairy ...
The CDC says this recommendation is intended to “protect those who may have received killed measles vaccine, which was available in 1963-1967 and was not effective.” ...
As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the ...