The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has warned patients and visitors of a possible measles exposure at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Sept. 11, urging review of vaccination status and symptom monitoring.
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Governor Josh Shapiro pressed the CDC to record four measles‑related deaths in Pennsylvania as the state battles one of the nation’s largest outbreaks.
A 17‑year‑old in Durham County died after a rare Naegleria fowleri infection, with investigators pointing to a water feature at a local mental‑health center as the most likely exposure site.
North Carolina health officials say a water feature at the El Futuro mental health clinic was the most likely source of the Naegleria fowleri infection that killed a 14‑year‑old in August.
Chile has been validated by the WHO as the first South American country to eliminate human rabies transmitted by dogs, ending a transmission chain that last occurred in 1972.
New York City health officials ordered immediate cleaning of ten Bronx rooftop cooling towers after preliminary tests found Legionella bacteria, amid a Legionnaires’ disease cluster that has sickened nine and claimed one life.
A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman with asthma and COPD died from an active measles infection, marking the third measles-related death in Pennsylvania this year.
During a Fox News town hall, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Pennsylvania refused to share information on two alleged measles deaths, sparking a dispute with the state’s health secretary.
U.S. cancer deaths tied to alcohol have risen from about 11,000 in 1990 to over 23,000 in 2023, a more‑than‑two‑fold increase, according to a new study.
A new Lancet Regional Health study shows that just one standard drink per day has doubled the proportion of U.S. cancer deaths linked to alcohol over the past three decades.