Public Health

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee has voted to recommend updating this fall’s Covid-19 vaccines to target the XFG variant, a fast-spreading omicron hybrid strain nicknamed “stratus.” XFG carries mutations that could help it partially dodge Covid…

A Kenyan court has halted the opening of a U.S. quarantine facility for American citizens in the country after a local rights group warned the arrangement could pose “grave and imminent risks” to public health, The New York Times reported.…

Bernadette Boden-Albala, MD, MPH, DrPH, has spent her career on the frontier of public health, from eradicating polio alongside UNICEF to building UCI’s Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health from scratch. Her list of field victories is…

The Trump administration plans to send U.S. citizens exposed to Ebola to Kenya for observation and treatment, three people with knowledge of the plans told The New York Times. Here’s the latest on the Ebola outbreak. 1. Dozens of public…

The FDA reviewed 96 reports of child deaths following COVID-19 vaccination and found no cases that were “certain” to be linked to the vaccines, according to a Dec. 5, 2025, memorandum made public this month. The reports were submitted to…

Ebola cases are now nearing 1,000 — up from 750 as of May 22 — and are outpacing prevention operations. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has signed a Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act declaration, providing liability protection to manufacturers, distributors and healthcare providers involved in the development and use of medical countermeasures against Andes hantavirus. The declaration covers…

The World Health Organization said May 22 the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Uganda comprises approximately 750 cases and has resulted in more than 170 deaths.  Michael Osterholm, PhD, director of the Center for Infectious…

Thirteen health systems across the country are federally designated Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers, meaning they are equipped and trained to treat patients with Ebola and other high-consequence pathogens. The centers are drawing renewed attention as the Ebola outbreak…

Hantavirus and Ebola are grabbing global headlines, but measles outbreaks across the country are a bigger threat to U.S. hospitals, according to an infectious disease leader at Corewell Health. As of May 21, the CDC had confirmed 1,952 measles cases…