Those departures follow Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s office of communications, who left last week; Robin Bailey, the agency’s chief operating officer, left late last month; and Nirav Shah, a former CDC principal deputy director. Pulled funding Meanwhile, NBC News reported this afternoon that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pulling … Read more
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, … Read more
Enlarge / A toddler with a “slapped cheek” rash A typical seasonal respiratory virus that sometimes infects school-aged kids is inflicting an unusually giant spike in circumstances throughout Europe and the US this summer season. The surge in transmission is a big hazard to sure weak populations together with pregnant individuals, in response to a … Read more