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About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC says.
By Stephanie Brown HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a Salmonella outbreak alert linked to pistachio cream.
Agency tells court that states are not suffering "irreparable harm" from cuts even as agency leaders lament "operational disruptions" and "loss of expertise and capacity."
All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions" made by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could lead to more preventable disease spread.
A U.S. government scientist who oversees the team responsible for collecting data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations used to shape national vaccine policy has resigned, citing concerns over how such data would be used by the Trump administration.
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MedPage Today on MSNMatthew Perry's Doctor Pleads Guilty; CDC Official Resigns; $7.4B Opioid SettlementA physician who supplied Matthew Perry with ketamine prior to the Friends actor's overdose last year will plead guilty to drug charges. (AP) A CDC official overseeing the team responsible for collecting data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations resigned,
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The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
The government hired back more than 450 CDC employees that were fired as part of the widespread restructuring that took place in April.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging summer camp operators to check for documentation of immunity from measles through vaccination or prior infection for all children, staff and volunteers, amid a deadly year of outbreaks that is now near record levels.