Tag: CDC

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 23:25 UTC

  New York country massive vaccination campaign following measles outbreak

  

  The New York county which declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak is on the “right path” after administering hundreds of vaccinations in two days, the chief of the US district said. Under the emergency, Rockland County banned non-vaccinated minors from public places in a bid to prevent the once-eliminated disease from spreading.

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  If visiting Brazil get yellow fever shots, recommends CDC, outbreak has spread to urban areas

  

  Travelers to Brazil are being warned to vaccinate themselves against yellow fever due to an outbreak of the disease in urban areas, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned in a press release on Friday.

• Saturday, October 18th 2014 - 08:13 UTC

  Ebola scare reaches cruise industry: Carnival vessel barred from Mexico and Belize

  

  A laboratory technician from the Dallas hospital where a Liberian died of the Ebola virus, and who handled some of his fluid samples for analysis, has been placed in quarantine aboard a cruise ship, the State Department said on Friday.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:37 UTC

  Steroid injection spreading rare form of fungal meningitis infection in the US

  

  The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are quickly moving to determine the source of the fungal infection causing a rare form of meningitis that has killed seven people in nine states in the last few weeks, as the producer of the steroid injection apparently carrying the infection recalled all of its products.