Though toddler vaccine levels remain high, recent measles outbreaks have raised concern.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is asking for bids on a 24/7 service to provide global data on disease outbreaks and other biologic threats, the agency said in a release this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a study to identify the long-term health effects of last fall's deadly fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroids and to determine which antifungal drugs work best, the Boston Globe reported recently.
In the latest investigation development in the multistate Listeria outbreak, Minnesota officials have detected the outbreak strain in two Crave Brothers cheeses.
Despite data collection gaps, there is strong evidence that poorer children are at greater risk for foodborne illness, according to a Jun 17 report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington, DC. Kids younger than 15 account for half of all foodborne illnesses, and young children are particularly vulnerable, the
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told private sector representatives and philanthropists yesterday that they should "make a smart investment in the world's future" by joining the United Nations in helping wipe out the world's deadliest infectious diseases—malaria, polio, tetanus, measles, and HIV—in the next 5 years.
Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in sewage samples from Rahat, Israel, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. Israel has not had a case of polio since 1988 and hasn't confirmed WPV in environmental samples since 2002.
Apr 26, 2013
(CIDRAP News) – Immunization systems in Africa still have supply, financing, and sustainability issues and need urgent attention from country leaders to reach the region's health goals, African experts said yesterday.