This report describes how health care providers outside of prenatal care settings can help prevent newborn syphilis through syphilis testing and treatment during pregnancy.
This report describes the percentage of health care personnel working in hospitals and nursing homes who received a flu vaccine and the percentage who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
This report describes and compares self-reported well-being and working conditions for health workers, other essential workers, and all other workers in 2018 and 2022.
Early detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants is critical to assessing risk, providing clear and timely communication messages, and coordinating public health action. CDC used a multicomponent surveillance approach to track the global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86.
CDC detected BA.2.86 variant in a traveler within days of being reported. Timely detection provides early warning of new COVID-19 variants entering the U.S.
From 2021 to 2022, global coverage with the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-containing vaccine increased from 86% to 89%, and with the first dose of measles-containing vaccine from 81% to 84%, but neither returned to 2019 prepandemic coverage levels of 90% and 86%, respectively.
This report describes the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' recommendation that all people aged 6 months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
This report describes severe cases of Bartonella quintana infection, a rare but serious disease transmitted by body lice, detected among people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in NYC.
This report describes the 2022-23 influenza season among children, including seasonal severity, estimated incidence, and characteristics of hospitalized patients.
This report describes the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendation for the seasonal administration of a single dose of RSV vaccine during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy to help prevent severe RSV illness in infants younger than 6 months.
This report describes the severity of respiratory syncytial virus disease among hospitalized older adults compared to hospitalizations for COVID-19 or influenza.