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    Surveillance for Lyme Disease After Implementation of a Revised Case Definition — United States,...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Discussion After implementation of a revised surveillance case definition in 2022, the number of reported Lyme disease cases in the United States...

    Study Shows Hospital Outcomes for Flu and COVID-19 Have Become More Similar

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 24, 2024 – A new CDC study has found that more recent COVID-19 hospitalizations among adults experienced fewer severe outcomes...

    Evaluation of a Distribution Model to Increase Access to Affordable Fruits and Vegetables

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Kerri L. Vasold, PhD1; Karah Mantinan, MPH, RD1; Rebecca Hofer, MPH1; Michael Waddle, MPA2; Amy Slechta, MPH2 (View author affiliations) Suggested citation...

    World Birth Defects Day | CDC

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Every year, about 3-6% of infants worldwide are born with a serious birth defect. This means that life-altering conditions such as...

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    U.S. Syphilis Cases in Newborns Continue to Increase: A 10-Times Increase Over a Decade...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Key findings Almost 9 in 10 cases of newborn syphilis in 2022 might have been prevented with timely testing and treatment during...

    QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Were Advised During the Past 12...

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    People with Chronic Medical Conditions Continue to Account for The Majority of Flu Hospitalizations...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 26, 2024 – Today CDC posted new data that show the proportion of people hospitalized with flu this season in...

    The Effect of a Tobacco Use Reduction Program on the Prevalence of Smoking and...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Farid Shamo, MBChB, MSc, MPH1; Kathryn E. Macomber, MPH1; Julia Hitchingham, MSW1; Sean Bennett, MPH1; Sheyonna Watson, MDiv1 (View author affiliations) Suggested...

    Lower Your Risk for the Number 1 Killer of Women | Health Equity Features

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing 310,661 women in 2021—or about 1 in...

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    Transcript for Vital Signs Telebriefing: Syphilis in Babies Reflects Health System Failures | CDC...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Verizon Operator (Christi)  0:00  Hello and thank you all for standing by. At this time, I’d like to inform all the...

    Hepatitis A Exposure Response and Outbreak Prevention in a Large Urban Jail — Los...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Discussion Since 2016, person-to-person outbreaks of hepatitis A in the United States have been increasingly occurring among persons who use drugs, those...

    World News in Brief: Gaza relief ‘an impossible mission’, COVID spreading fast again, food...

    “Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on”, warned Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths in a...

    CDC Study Points to Potential Benefits of Newer Flu Vaccines

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 31, 2024 – A recent CDC study suggests that vaccination with non-egg-based flu vaccines might improve the antibody response to...

    Measuring Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes at Elementary Schools Involved in SNAP-Ed New Mexico...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Camille Velarde, MA1; Erica Landrau-Cribbs, PhD1; Mahtab Soleimani, BA1; Theresa H. Cruz, PhD1 (View author affiliations) Suggested citation for this article: Velarde...

    Blood Clot Awareness | CDC

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). More Resources Stop the Clot, Spread the Word® Campaign Resource Toolkit The Stop the Clot, Spread the Word campaign, a joint effort of...

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    Another malaria milestone as WHO declares Cabo Verde free of deadly disease

    The certification is expected to drive progress on other health fronts in the country such as using the systems built for controlling malaria to...

    WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to deliver healthcare in crises

    The appeal comes at a time when climate change, drought and other extreme weather events, are fuelling food insecurity, conflict and displacement, causing deeper...

    Biden-Harris Administration Agencies Sign Interagency Agreement to Address Wildfire Risk and Protect Communities from...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). WASHINGTON – Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and...

    Routes of Drug Use Among Drug Overdose Deaths — United States, 2020–2022

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Summary What is already known about this topic? More than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70%...

    Europe: 1.4 million lives saved thanks to COVID-19 vaccines

    Delivering his first message of the new year, Dr. Hans Kluge stressed that without vaccines, the death toll on the continent “could have been...

    Cholera cases soar globally; Malawi, Haiti deadliest outbreaks, WHO reports

    Eastern and southern African nations are among the worst affected, accounting for about 75 per cent of the fatalities and a third of the...