As the national suicide rate remains near historically high levels, the need for population-level prevention is more critical ...

Once symptoms appear, the rabies survival rate is less than 1%—but prevention measures and quick post-exposure interventions ...

The International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health works to create a more equitable world, free from adverse health, economic, and social consequences of ...

. The authors note that the study has limitations due to varying state policies. Other limitations include data completeness, consistency in contextual facets of state policies, and social ...

Although state-level data are useful, a more granular picture of where measles cases are occurring can help to inform a more effective public health response. The U.S. Measles Tracker maps the ...

As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, we brace for colder weather and shorter days that have more people spending time indoors. And while for many the season brings cozy holiday ...

For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. has recorded homegrown malaria cases. The country sees about 2,000–2,500 malaria cases each year linked to travel to malaria-endemic areas such as sub-Saharan ...

Home CDC Provisional Data: Gun Suicides Reach All-time High in 2022, Gun Homicides Down Slightly from 2021 ...

Building on and complementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) national disease surveillance infrastructure, the tracker provides open access data to offer the public, the ...

As of mid-December, flu, COVID, and RSV activity are relatively low throughout most of the U.S., but rates of all three are climbing just as many Americans travel and gather for the holidays. And, for ...

The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...

Beyond the direct medical costs of treating patients through both outpatient visits and hospitalizations, significant resources are needed to respond to and control measles outbreaks, and economic ...