Female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of obtaining a “blood meal.” reader comments 26 Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency amid an ongoing outbreak of dengue infections, a mosquito-spread viral infection that can cause fever, aches, rash, vomiting, and, in about 5 percent of cases, a severe disease marked ..
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Enlarge / A brightly colored transmission microscope image of measles viruses. reader comments 18 A team of health experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Chicago on Tuesday as officials identified three new measles cases amid a flare-up of cases at a migrant shelter in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood. So far, ..
Face of boy after three days with measles rash. reader comments 376 Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates ..
Enlarge / An intensive care nurse cares for a patient suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), who is being ventilated in the children’s intensive care unit of the Olga Hospital of the Stuttgart Clinic in Germany. reader comments 12 with A Pfizer vaccine designed to protect newborns and infants from severe RSV illness won a ..
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reader comments 47 with Americans will again have an opportunity to receive free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the US government, with orders beginning next Monday, September 25, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. Households will be eligible to receive four free rapid tests that will “detect the currently circulating COVID-19 variant,” the Department of Health ..
Enlarge / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. reader comments 127 with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that everyone ages six months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine booster shot this fall or winter. The recommendation came ..
Enlarge / Competitors take part in “Tough Mudder” at the Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California, United States on April 2, 2023. reader comments 107 with Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like ..
Enlarge / WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva, on December 14, 2022. reader comments 86 with With global attention and anxiety locked onto the latest coronavirus omicron subvariant BA.2.86, health officials and experts are still mostly in the dark about ..
Enlarge / An armadillo prepares to cross a gravel road as the space shuttle Endeavour rests on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center before the scheduled launch of STS-130 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 4, 2010. reader comments 62 with A Florida man’s unexplained case of leprosy last year adds to mounting evidence that ..