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The Pennsylvania Department of Health on October 7 reported 1,066 confirmed measles cases since the outbreak began in April, surpassing the 997 cases recorded in a South Carolina outbreak that ended earlier in 2026 and becoming the largest…
2026-10-07 · 4 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration on Friday said its inspectors detected cyclospora at a Taylor Farms lettuce farm in Guanajuato state, Mexico, the site the agency has linked to the largest foodborne cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. The…
2026-10-03 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department and groups of taxpayers are arguing over what the phrase "and continuing" means in President Trump's March 2020 Covid-19 pandemic disaster declaration. The dispute determines whether U.S. tax deadlines were suspended…
2026-09-30 · 4 MIN READPublic health workers in Pennsylvania have gone door to door through rural Amish communities to administer measles vaccines as the state's outbreak has become the deadliest in the United States since 1992, claiming four lives. Since late…
2026-09-24 · 6 MIN READMeasles cases in the U.S. have reached 3,924 confirmed cases this year, the highest level in three decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The toll includes a Saturday death in Pennsylvania's Jefferson County…
2026-09-13 · 3 MIN READA Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, coroner announced Saturday that a 40-year-old woman died of complications associated with the state's ongoing measles outbreak, marking what appears to be the third measles-related death in Pennsylvania…
2026-09-13 · 3 MIN READUS lettuce prices dropped 6.2% from July to August 2026 after falling 16.4% the prior month — the largest one-month decrease in recent history — according to data released Friday. Food economics experts attribute the decline to demand…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READFormer CDC officials and independent public health authorities are warning that the CDC's handling of two measles deaths that Pennsylvania state officials recently attributed to measles could erode trust in federal health data, according…
2026-09-11 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday declared the summer's cyclosporiasis outbreak over after it sickened 12,833 people across 21 states, a season federal investigators linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READThe New York City Health Department has identified a new Legionnaires' disease cluster in the South Bronx, with five people diagnosed as of Thursday in the Melrose and Morrisania neighborhoods and one death connected to the outbreak, the…
2026-09-11 · 3 MIN READHealth workers responding to the Democratic Republic of Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak have gone unpaid for weeks and violated safe-burial protocols by allowing grieving families to touch highly infectious corpses, according to aid…
2026-09-08 · 4 MIN READFour major U.S. medical groups simultaneously issued independent vaccination guidelines for COVID-19, influenza and RSV on Wednesday, recommending Americans continue to get immunized as the newest versions of the vaccines become available…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READProduce supplier Taylor Farms contacted the White House in an attempt to delay the announcement of a recall tied to a multistate cyclospora outbreak, according to people familiar with the matter. The call, facilitated by a former senior…
2026-07-25 · 3 MIN READThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not including two measles-related deaths reported by Pennsylvania in its national count while it reviews the cases, according to an agency note posted Sunday and reported by The…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READ
The U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy Vermont spent the summer injecting 6,000 young elm trees with Dutch elm disease spores near Montpelier, Vermont, testing which specimens can survive a fungal epidemic that has killed tens…
2026-08-31 · 5 MIN READThe US Department of Agriculture is shuttering two of three federal research projects studying cyclospora after the parasite sickened more than 17,000 Americans since May 1, according to a Sunday Politico report cited by The Guardian. The…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READU.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X late Wednesday that two measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania may have been "fabricated," prompting Governor Josh Shapiro to call the claims "inaccurate and misleading." The two…
2026-08-28 · 4 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that cyclospora cases linked to recalled iceberg lettuce have been confirmed in 20 states, with the case count rising to 11,458 from about 10,900 a week earlier. Three states — Georgia,…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READTwo unvaccinated Lancaster county residents died of measles, Pennsylvania health officials announced Tuesday, marking the first measles deaths in the state in 35 years. The deaths came one day after Maryland declared a measles outbreak in…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READCava Group finance chief Tricia Tolivar said the Mediterranean fast-casual chain's sales slipped late in the quarter ended July 12 as summer cyclospora outbreaks weighed on restaurant traffic, before recovering to mid-single-digit growth…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READUS health officials have linked a food poisoning outbreak to alfalfa sprouts produced by Everything Sprouts, a Minnesota grower, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The agency reported at least 55 cases across 15…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READA U.N. coordinator said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has infected more than 5,290 people and killed 2,516 since it was declared on May 15.
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READDelaware beach patrols are reporting hundreds of jellyfish stings each day, with Rehoboth Beach recording 150 to 200 daily stings since the end of July and Lewes Beach averaging about 100. State officials advise beachgoers to rinse stings…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that 55 people across 15 states have been sickened in a foodborne illness outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, with four patients hospitalized. State health authorities…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe World Health Organization estimates that nearly 11 million people will contract measles in 2026, with most cases concentrated in Africa and Asia and resurgences now reported across the Americas and Europe, according to analysis by…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 431 salmonella infections across 32 states on Wednesday, with the agency identifying jalapeño peppers distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors as the likely source of the outbreak.…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READAdoptions are on hold for thousands of dogs and cats in Texas shelters, potentially putting the animals at risk of being euthanized, as state movement restrictions imposed to contain the New World screwworm leave facilities overcrowded.…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READThe FDA's food traceability rule — a regulation designed to let investigators more quickly and accurately pinpoint where tainted food came from, all the way down to the farm — will not be enforced until July 2028 under a provision Congress…
2026-08-16 · 5 MIN READPresident Donald Trump's executive order on vaccines does not change federal vaccine recommendations, according to public health experts and pediatricians, who say it is instead sowing confusion that may lead parents to delay their…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READLouisiana health officials are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. The state has confirmed nine infections this year — all…
2026-08-09 · 3 MIN READA U.S. Senate committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former public health official invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a hearing focused on his actions during the…
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration has approved mFlusiva, Moderna’s flu vaccine for adults age 50 and older, the company said. It is the first flu vaccine made with the mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READFederal health officials are investigating a Salmonella Javiana outbreak linked to jalapeño peppers from Sinaloa, Mexico, after 345 people in 27 states became ill. The FDA said 36 people have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported.
2026-08-06 · 3 MIN READHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told American parents on Sunday to have their children vaccinated against measles, stating the vaccine prevents the disease in about 97% of cases. Kennedy's appeal, made during an interview on CNN's…
2026-08-02 · 3 MIN READThe World Health Organization said the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest the country has ever recorded, with 3,605 confirmed cases and 1,587 deaths as of July 30. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo…
2026-08-01 · 4 MIN READDr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to answer questions during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, prompting Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to threaten contempt-of-Congress proceedings.…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READYum Brands reported second-quarter profit of $853 million, more than double the $374 million from a year earlier, as an outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked to shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell affected U.S. sales.
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READColonial-era records have long documented that smallpox devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas after European contact. New genetic evidence from mummies in Chile has now confirmed that connection, said geneticist Shigeki…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READThe American Red Cross has declared a national blood supply "crisis" for only the second time in its 150-year history, as extreme weather and a widespread foodborne illness have left supplies low at the peak of summer demand. Inventory…
2026-07-29 · 4 MIN READA cyclosporiasis outbreak that has potentially sickened more than 11,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's count, is revealing differences in how US states and the federal government track foodborne…
2026-07-28 · 3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration delayed enforcement of a food traceability rule by 30 months, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention terminated its mandatory FoodNet tracking program, before a cyclospora outbreak linked to…
2026-07-27 · 3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration has identified a new cluster of 72 cyclospora infections from an unknown source, adding a second active investigation to a multistate outbreak that has sickened thousands across at least 41 states,…
2026-07-24 · 3 MIN READTaco Bell executives convened late-night virtual meetings, set up a war room at the chain's Irvine, California, headquarters, and diverted supply trucks to pull potentially contaminated lettuce from stores after federal health officials…
2026-07-23 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 4,100 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis across 41 states on Wednesday, more than double the total from a week earlier, including 308 hospitalizations and no deaths.
2026-07-22 · 3 MIN READThe United States is in worse shape to prevent and respond to infectious disease outbreaks than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, former top CDC officials told The Guardian, as a series of concurrent health threats expose widening gaps…
2026-07-22 · 3 MIN READTaylor Farms on Friday expanded a voluntary recall of shredded iceberg lettuce produced at its Guanajuato, Mexico, facility to 27 states, citing potential contamination with the Cyclospora parasite. The recall covers products shipped as…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READProduce supplier Taylor Fresh Foods is voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the U.S. market, after the Food and Drug Administration traced a Cyclospora outbreak to shredded lettuce produced in the…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter, that shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a multistate Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READMichigan health officials have identified bagged, prewashed salad kits as a possible culprit in a rapidly expanding Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigates more…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration has barred American citizens who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of Congo from flying directly to the United States, requiring them to spend 21 days in another country before boarding a flight home.…
2026-07-14 · 4 MIN READA sustained rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections has drawn concern across Latin America and the Caribbean, with the Pan American Health Organization reporting that the region accounted for 90% of the 4.2 million new…
2026-07-14 · 4 MIN READSome Taco Bell locations have posted signage that they have stopped serving lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole, cilantro and onion as an ongoing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite has sickened hundreds across the country.
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READNew York City health officials reported Sunday that a Legionnaires' disease cluster on Manhattan's Upper East Side has grown to 14 confirmed cases, with the investigation area expanded to include a third ZIP code. No deaths have been…
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a parasitic outbreak of Cyclospora that has caused more than 400 cases of the intestinal illness cyclosporiasis across 18 states. Cases have been reported hardest in New…
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READMore than 100 passengers and about 23 crew members aboard the Princess Cruises vessel Ruby Princess fell sick from suspected norovirus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ship docked in San Francisco on…
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READResearchers began a clinical trial of two possible Ebola treatments on Thursday in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization said, as the Bundibugyo-strain outbreak continues to spread and has now infected more than 1,400 people.
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READMore than 120 passengers and crew aboard the Princess Cruises ship Ruby Princess fell ill with norovirus during a 20-day Alaska voyage that ended Thursday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READKenyan Health Minister Aden Duale on Monday halted construction of a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility after a High Court judge found him in contempt of court for defying an earlier order that blocked the project, officials said.
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READThe last eight Americans quarantined for six weeks after exposure to a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship were released Monday, as the U.S. Health and Human Services Department ended the mandatory isolation that one passenger…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READThe AIDS Memorial Quilt, described by the Library of Congress as the largest communal art project in the world, weighs more than 50 tons and is stitched from the lives of those lost to an epidemic that many in government and the public…
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READAt least 159 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, have fallen ill in an influenza outbreak weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccination for U.S. troops, according to the New York Times…
2026-06-18 · 3 MIN READHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered Angela Perryman, a 47-year-old American exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship, to remain in quarantine in Nebraska on Monday, overruling a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READA measles outbreak in Utah has been spreading for nearly 12 months, putting the United States on track to lose its measles-elimination status — a designation the country held since 2000. The Utah outbreak, now at 679 cases, has spread…
2026-06-13 · 4 MIN READThe New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasitic fly that was eradicated from the United States six decades ago, has re-emerged in Texas cattle, threatening the livestock industry with more than $700 million in potential annual losses and…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration on Tuesday pressed European leaders to tighten travel restrictions on people arriving from Ebola-hit African countries, warning that a failure to act could lead to new U.S. travel limits on Europe — including for…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READA new analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to as many as 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow…
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READThe Pan American Health Organization warned this week that a resurgent measles outbreak across the Americas, which has produced more than 20,000 confirmed cases and 25 deaths this year, poses a growing public health threat as millions…
2026-06-03 · 3 MIN READMichigan has shifted away from requiring parents to attend in-person vaccine education sessions before obtaining school immunization waivers, adopting a hybrid online process as the state faces a measles outbreak and a record-high rate of…
2026-06-02 · 3 MIN READCongolese authorities are working to stem an Ebola outbreak centered in Ituri Province, but insecurity, aid shortfalls and local anger are complicating the response. On Sunday, authorities said suspected cases in eastern Congo had passed…
2026-05-25 · 3 MIN READAttacks on Ebola treatment centers, including the storming of a hospital in Mongbwalu, are complicating the response to an outbreak that has now surpassed 900 suspected cases in eastern Congo, health authorities said Sunday.
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READSuspected Ebola cases in eastern Congo have topped 900, Congolese authorities said Sunday, amid a volatile mix of armed conflict, mass displacement and international aid cuts that continues to hobble the response to an outbreak declared a…
2026-05-24 · 4 MIN READHealth workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo say an Ebola outbreak declared May 15 has grown to more than 900 suspected cases, with 220 suspected deaths, and could spread across borders as officials investigate why it went undetected…
2026-05-24 · 3 MIN READGlobal health emergencies are back in headlines, with recent outbreaks of hantavirus on a cruise ship and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo drawing online fear and fascination. Infectious disease experts and public health…
2026-05-21 · 3 MIN READThe World Health Organization declared a global health emergency Sunday as an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda continues to grow, with more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths reported. The rare…
2026-05-17 · 4 MIN READA new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 15 people among 28 suspected cases, the country’s health minister said Thursday, marking the 16th such epidemic in the central African nation.
2026-05-17 · 3 MIN READThe Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed Sunday that one of four Canadians who returned from an Andes hantavirus-hit cruise ship has tested positive for the virus, making the patient the 10th confirmed case linked to the MV Hondius…
2026-05-17 · 3 MIN READCongo’s health ministry said Thursday that a new suspected Ebola outbreak in the central African country has left 15 people dead among 28 people showing symptoms. The ministry said a provisional report includes suspected cases in Boulapé…
2026-05-17 · 3 MIN READLa Organización Mundial de la Salud declaró el domingo el brote de ébola en la República Democrática del Congo y la vecina Uganda como una emergencia de salud pública de importancia internacional. En un anuncio, la OMS informó que se han…
2026-05-17 · 3 MIN READCanada’s national public health agency confirmed Sunday that one of four Canadians who returned from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, and reported that a traveling partner tested negative. Both…
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