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Issues in Getting a COVID Vaccine This Fall--overview

Wed, 2025-06-11 11:05 — mike kraft

Can You Still Get a COVID Vaccine This Fall? Here’s What to Know In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current administration has thrown that into uncertainty Lauren J. Young, Meghan Bartels Scientific American

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Efforts to save measles surveillance network hit by USG funding cuts

Wed, 2025-06-11 08:48 — mike kraft

Philanthropies rush to save measles surveillance network pushed to brink of collapse by U.S. cuts The Trump administration’s gutting of global aid is threatening to collapse a network of laboratories responsible for global measles and rubella surveillance Helen Branswell STAT

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MPOX alert extended after surge in West Africa--WHO

Tue, 2025-06-10 09:30 — mike kraft

WHO maintains mpox alert amid West Africa surge The World Health Organisation said Monday that the mpox virus epidemic remains an international health emergency with more than 37,000 confirmed cases reported since it erupted. Science X Medical Xpress

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WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the extension of the emergency following a meeting of international experts who noted progress in some countries but also highlighted a surge in west Africa and the spread of the virus outside Africa.

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New COVID variant spreading in Americas and Europe being monitored by WHO

Tue, 2025-06-10 09:26 — mike kraft

WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. Fernanda González WIRED

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Texas, center of the current measles outbreak, reports no new measles cases since June 3

Mon, 2025-06-09 09:35 — mike kraft

Texas health department reports no additional measles cases in the state since June 3 The Texas health department reported no new cases of measles on Friday, the first time the state has not recorded an increase since the outbreak began in February. Reuters Reuters

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Measles spreads across the Americas and outbreaks in Mexico and Canada have also turned deadly

Mon, 2025-06-09 09:20 — mike kraft

As measles spreads across the Americas, outbreaks in Mexico and Canada have also turned deadly | CNN As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also experiencing significant outbreaks – all of which have been linked to at least one death. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Background on the new COVID-19 variant and its impact

Fri, 2025-06-06 09:50 — mike kraft

A new COVID-19 variant, vaccine changes: What to know in 2025 COVID-19 is remains a public health concern five years after the start of the pandemic. What to know about vaccines, variants and more. Mary Walrath-Holdridge and Greta Cross USA TODAY

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Measles: Ontario, with massive outbreak, has become the epicenter of the Western Hemisphere

Fri, 2025-06-06 09:12 — mike kraft

A massive outbreak has made Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby The Guardian

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Interview on how mpox research is helping prepare for a new pandemic

Thu, 2025-06-05 09:28 — mike kraft

Q&A: How mpox research is helping scientists prepare for a new pandemic The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was hard hit. Today, mpox remains an ongoing public health emergency, according ... Cameron Scott Medical Xpress

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Opinion: Doctors must concentrate on the unvaccinated in countering measles spread.

Thu, 2025-06-05 09:09 — mike kraft

Doctors: The US must concentrate on the unvaccinated to fight measles outbreak Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must address the reasons parents withhold measles vaccine from their children to fight the measles outbreak. Grace Miserocchi Chicago Tribune

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