The Latest Breaking News from CDC

"The true number of sick people in this outbreak is likely much higher than the number reported"

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover

Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South as part of an ambitious and unusual new health study

While WHO and Africa CDC declare public health emergencies over mpox, questions of vaccine access are critical

Experts say the US’s method for recording maternal deaths obscures underlying causes that need to be addressed.

The U.S. is in the midst of what’s become an annual summer surge in COVID cases. In fact, the nation is experiencing its biggest spike in summer infections yet.

Covid was not as deadly in 2023 as it was in prior years, falling from the fourth to 10th leading cause of death

Confirmed infections among children aged 5 to 9 rose from 15 percent in 2022 to 40 percent in June 2024

As of early August, 43 people had gotten sick and three of them died

On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries in Africa. The disease had previously caused a global outbreak from 2022…

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