Public Health

HHS has rewritten the governing charters for the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee. The ACCV charter, filed July 21, removes the standalone designated federal officer section that appeared in the previous version, which specified…

The FDA has added a new cyclospora outbreak of at least 72 cases to its active investigations table. The July 22 listing marks the agency’s fifth active cyclospora investigation of the season. The new cluster comes amid what’s now the…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has now reported more than 1,033 confirmed Ebola deaths 67 days after it was declared an outbreak. This outbreak is killing more people at a greater rate compared to any outbreak on record, ABC News…

The U.S. has already logged more measles cases in 2026 than it did in all of 2025, CDC data shows. Five things to know:

In the nation’s largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the CDC has reported 4,940 lab-confirmed and 341 hospitalizations across 41 states, according to a July 21 update.  Between May 1 and July 20, the federal health agency reported 4,173 domestic cases and…

The FDA has retracted its statement that the cyclospora outbreak is linked to Taylor Farms, the supplier of Taco Bell lettuce, The Wall Street Journal reported July 20. Here is what to know. 1. On July 17, the CDC said…

Most patients treated at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital during South Carolina’s recent measles outbreak were children 10 or younger, and at least 73% were unvaccinated, the health system’s physicians reported. In a research letter published in The New England…

The CDC has linked a five-state cyclosporiasis outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell and warned the public not to eat it, but the agency has not publicly named the supplier. The agency’s July 16 notice covers Taco…

Seven American aid workers are quarantined in the new U.S. isolation facility in Kenya, the first known people to use the facility, Reuters reported. The U.S. government is building the 50-bed bio-isolation unit designed for asymptomatic Americans exposed to the…

Health systems in some of the areas hardest hit by wildfire smoke are reporting varied effects on emergency department volumes: A few have seen a modest uptick in patients with respiratory symptoms, while others said an anticipated surge has yet…