Public Health

Carolyn Bridges, MD and Litjen (L.J) Tan, MS, PhD, Immunize.org

An outbreak of measles a few months ago has now been reported to be over, according to Ohio's Columbus City Health Department.

Health officials in Washington state have filed numerous court orders requiring a woman with an active tuberculosis infection to isolate and receive treatment, NBC News reported Jan. 3. 

Up to 56 percent of U.S. adults received inappropriate antibiotics for common bacterial respiratory infections between 2016 and 2018, according to findings from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. 

Research released Feb. 2 and led by experts from Boston Children's Hospital examined the widespread barrier of vaccine deserts, defined as geographic areas that are "more than a 15-minute drive to the closest active COVID-19 vaccination site."

Just 2 percent of more than 69,000 specimens tested for influenza at clinical laboratories in the U.S. were positive for the week ending Jan. 28, according to the CDC's latest FluView report. During the height of the flu outbreak in…

Nationwide, COVID-19 cases and deaths both decreased by nearly 20 percent this week, according to the CDC's COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published March 3. 

The highly infectious mpox virus, formerly called monkeypox, was declared a public health emergency in August and ended Jan. 31 thanks to an aggressive, highly coordinated public response, ABC News reported Feb. 2.

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to fall nationwide, though several states have seen this trend reverse in recent days. 

Long COVID-19's myriad risk factors and symptoms have been a key focus for study as experts aim to learn more about the effects and duration in humans. Now, emerging research may have narrowed the swath of symptoms to seven prominent…