Measles, flu, COVID are spreading. How to tell them apart, stay safe

With measles outbreaks, flu spikes, and COVID as a seasonal threat, learn key differences between these contagious diseases, symptoms, vaccine advice.
Infectious Disease Advisor

Updated COVID-19 Vaccines Linked to Lower Risk for Severe COVID-19 Outcomes

Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduced the risk for hospitalization and severe outcomes despite the emergence of new viral lineages.

CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting canceled for next week

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisors committee is not going to meet next week as planned, according to a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and ...

CDC vaccine advisory panel meeting postponed

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has delayed an upcoming meeting of its highly influential vaccine ...

CDC postpones influential vaccine advisory panel's February meeting

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stepped up efforts to rewrite U.S. vaccination policy, dropping recommendations for six childhood shots.
BMJ Open

Effect of containment strategies for respiratory diseases on infections imported via international travel to the USA: a modelling study

Objectives To examine outcomes from respiratory pathogens containment strategies focused on international travellers. Design We developed a compartmental model generalisable to respiratory infectious ...