Outbreak

A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the 1960s, does she need another shot?

Measles outbreaks in the United States have presented primary care providers with an ethical dilemma — how to balance a patient’s right to forgo vaccinations with the safety of other vulnerable patients who may be put at risk because of that choice.

Another unvaccinated child has died from measles in Texas, according to state health officials.

From a public health point of view, there are no specific strategies for prevention of hepatitis E virus infection. Exposures to HEV are relatively common, but it is usually goes undiagnosed.

The best way to prevent hepatitis A virus infection is with the HAV vaccine. Practicing good hand hygiene can also prevent the spread of the virus.

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has grown to include nearly 450 cases in just 2 months, health officials reported.

The outbreak of bird flu that began in the United States in 2022 among wild birds and poultry has since spread to dairy cattle, at least one pig, a growing number of people — and even cats.

An unknown illness has killed 60 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since late January, according to WHO.

An unvaccinated child has died from measles in an outbreak in Texas that has grown to include more than 120 cases spanning nine counties, state health officials announced Wednesday.

A dozen people have died and 38 have been sickened in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplemental nutrition shakes distributed in long-term care facilities, the CDC said.