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Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza a day before fighting is expected to pause 08/31/2024 05:02pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's military offensives. Meanwhile, Israel's military 9 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza's young against polio 08/31/2024 02:48pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory's healthcare system. The campaign comes after the first polio In South Africa's richest area, mother-to-baby HIV transmission is a concern despite free prevention 08/31/2024 12:11am • PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — It's a worrying question for health officials in one of the richest and most developed areas of the African continent: Why are babies being born with HIV when free medication is available to prevent mother-to-child transmission? In the first half of this year, 232 bab US clears updated COVID shots from Novavax, adding a 3rd fall vaccine option 08/30/2024 04:06pm • U.S. regulators have cleared a third updated COVID-19 vaccine for this fall, shots made by Novavax Inc. Already, Pfizer and Moderna are shipping shots modified to better match more recent strains of the ever-evolving coronavirus. Those doses can be used in adults and children as young as 6 months. F Mpox outbreaks in Africa could be ended in 6 months, WHO chief says 08/30/2024 02:43pm • GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months, and said Friday that the agency's first shipment of vaccines should arrive in Congo within days. To date, Africa has received just a tiny fraction of the Gaithersburg’s Emergent BioSolutions wins FDA approval for mpox vaccine 08/30/2024 09:06am • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions has received Food and Drug Administration approval for use of its existing smallpox vaccine as a vaccine for the mpox virus. The vaccine, known as ACAM2000, is a single-dose vaccine that was originally approved by the FDA in 2007 for immuniz WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations 08/29/2024 05:27pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Pales Massachusetts health officials report second case of potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus 08/29/2024 03:50pm • BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts health officials on Thursday announced a second confirmed case of the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus in the state. A second case of the virus in a horse was also confirmed. The human case is a woman in her 30s. Both were exposed in the area of Plymouth Health officials in Wisconsin, Illinois report 3 West Nile virus deaths 08/29/2024 03:32pm • Two people in eastern Wisconsin and one person in northeastern Illinois have died of West Nile virus, according to health officials. A third person in Wisconsin also has been hospitalized because of the mosquito-borne illness, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Thursday in a release. T A baby in Gaza has a strain of polio linked to mistakes in eradication campaign, experts say 08/29/2024 02:51pm • LONDON (AP) — The baby in Gaza who was recently paralyzed by polio was infected with a mutated strain of the virus that vaccinated people shed in their waste, according to scientists who say the case is the result of “an unqualified failure” of public health policy. The infection, which marked DC Mayor Bowser tests positive for COVID-19, second time since 2022 08/29/2024 09:25am • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday morning she has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement posted on X, Bowser said she will be following all public health guidelines, adding that she will miss the first day of school for pre-K students. "I'm disappointed to not be able to celebrate t Wasn't polio wiped out? Why it is still a problem in some countries 08/28/2024 04:14pm • LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most infectious diseases and is still spreading in a small number of countries. The WHO and its p What to know about the Oropouche virus, also known as sloth fever 08/27/2024 04:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba have been infected with a virus transmitted by bugs in recent months, federal health officials said Tuesday. They all had Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever. None have died, and there is no evidence that it's sprea New Hampshire resident dies after testing positive for mosquito-borne encephalitis virus 08/27/2024 04:35pm • A New Hampshire resident infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health authorities said. The Hampstead resident's infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The resident, whom t Africa's mpox outbreaks result from neglect and world's inability to stop epidemics, experts say 08/27/2024 04:13pm • LONDON (AP) — The growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-rela