New York State Department of Health Reported First Case of Measles in New York State Outside of New York City in 2025
On Mar. 11, 2025, the New York State Department of Health today announced the first case of measles…
Research Reveals Ways To Keep Emergency Responders Safe In Future Pandemics
On Mar. 11, 2025, researchers from Texas A&M University School of Public Health report findings show significant links…
‘A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn’t’: Lessons from Texarkana’s 1970 outbreak
On Mar. 11, 2025, in an excerpt from his book Booster Shots (Penguin Random House), pediatrician and infectious…
First Cases of Measles in Reported in Oklahoma
On Mar. 11, 2025, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reported the first two measles cases in…
Texas announces more than 150 cases of the measles and first death
On Mar. 4, 2025, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported an outbreak of measles in the…
USDA Invests Up To $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices
On Feb. 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA0 announced a $1 billion-dollar comprehensive strategy to curb…
Texas announced more than 120 cases of the measles and first death
On Feb. 26, 2025, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported the first death from measles in…
New York State Department of Health Issued Health Advisory on First Mpox Clade Ib Case Detected in New York
On Feb. 12, 2025, the New York State Department of Health issued a Health Advisory to health care…
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Arizona Department of Agriculture reported Influenza Detected in Dairy Cattle
On Feb. 11, 2025, the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) reported working in conjunction with the United States…
evolution of plague traced to Bronze Age Sheep with Yersinia pestis genome
On Feb. 7, 2025, an international team of researchers reported Yersinia pestis genome had been recovered from a…
H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in 11 California Dairies
On Dec. 5, 2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reported that following an investigation with the…
Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle Confirmed Fatal avian flu case
On Nov. 14, 2024, officials at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle announced that a red-breasted goose had…
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U.S. detects H5N1 bird flu in a pig for the first time on Oregon Farm
On Oct. 30, 2024, the the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that H5N1 bird flu was confirmed…
COVID-19 hospitalization remained higher among older adults
On Oct. 4, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data that showed older adults…
Covid-19 pandemic changed scientific publishing
On Sep. 9, 2024, Santo Fortunato, a professor at Luddy School of Informatics, reported that an international research…
University of Houston Researchers Created New Treatment and Vaccine for Flu and Various Coronaviruses
On Aug. 6, 2024, a team of researchers, led by the University of Houston, announced they had discovered…
Cornell Study confirmed mammal-to-mammal avian flu spread
On Jul. 24, 2024, a team led by researchers at Cornell University announced a study that provides evidence…
USDA confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza USDA in dairy herd in New Mexico
On Apr. 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza…
Goat tested positive for same influenza virus affecting poultry in Stevens County, Minnesota
On Mar. 20, 2024, the Minnesota Board of Health announced that a Stevens County goat kid (juvenile goat)…
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Passenger with measles travelled through Vancouver International Airport
On Nov. 29, 2023, the BC Centre for Disease Controlr Disease Control (BCCDC) announced that a A passenger…
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FDA issued final guidance on developing drugs for COVID-19 treatment and preventionﾠ
On Nov. 22, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the final guidance COVID-19: Developing Drugs…
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Global measles threat continued to grow as another year passed with millions of children unvaccinated
On Nov. 16. 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that Following years of…
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FDA cleared first COVID-19 home antigen test
On Nov. 9, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared for marketing the first over-the-counter (OTC)…
Pfizer and BioNTech received U.S. FDA approval for 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine
On Sept. 11, 2023, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the…
JAMA reported excess death rates for Republican and Democratic voters in Florida and Ohio during COVID-19 pandemic
On Jul. 24, 2023, the Journal JAMA reported there is evidence that Republican-leaning counties had higher COVID-19 death…
U.S. FDA updated COVID-19 vaccines for use in the U.S. beginning in Fall 2023
On Jun. 16, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee…
U.S. FDA permitted marketing of first COVID-19 at-home test using traditional premarket review process
On Jun. 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted granted marketing authorization for the Cue COVID-19…
U.S. FDA issued Emergency Use Authorization for new COVID-19 Over-the-Counter at-home antigen test
On Apr. 24, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Status COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test for…
U.S. FDA issued EUA for new COVID-19 over-the-counter at-home antigen test
On Apr. 14, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the…
Pfizer and BioNTech submitted for U.S. EUA of Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 booster in children under 5 years
On Mar. 1, 2023, BioNTech and Pfizer announced that they had submitted an application to the U.S. Food…