Public Health Surveillance

The CDC has awarded $262.5 million in funding to develop and implement new tools to detect, respond to and mitigate future public health emergencies such as outbreaks and pandemics.

Prompted by a large spike in cases last year, the CDC has reminded health care providers to ensure that all patients with HIV are fully vaccinated against meningococcal disease.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.

The CDC has awarded $3.2 billion to state, local and territorial jurisdictions across the country to improve and grow the public health workforce.

Active and passive Candida auris surveillance in southern California allowed researchers to identify cases and gain crucial data, including resistance information, in real time.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that the Doomsday Clock remains as close to midnight as ever — 100 seconds to midnight — in part because of the lack of preparedness and leadership from politicians in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are seeing an enormous rise in COVID-19 cases, but as we continue to focus on controlling the pandemic, it is vital that we prevent outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.

WASHINGTON — Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Washington, explains findings from the Seattle Flu Study, an effort to track influenza transmission in the community as an “early alert system” for hospitals.