Hantavirus Quietly Became a Sixteen-State CDC Monitoring Event
The CDC is now watching 41 people in 16 states for Andes-strain hantavirus exposure, and Jay Bhattacharya has explained on the record why he isn't briefing daily.
Nora Whitfield
Bureau: Chicago
The US Is Inside the Last Six Months of Its Measles Elimination Status
A May 8 Lancet letter and CIDRAP analysis say the United States is on track to lose the 2000 measles-elimination designation when PAHO meets in November.
CDC Overdose Data Show a Third Straight Year of Decline at Fourteen Percent
Provisional 2025 overdose deaths fell about fourteen percent — the third straight year of decline and the longest sustained drop of the synthetic-opioid era.
Bhattacharya's CDC Picks No Daily Briefing Six Weeks From World Cup Kickoff
The acting CDC director put the agency's outbreak-communications protocol on the record six weeks before the largest mass gathering in tournament history.
Hantavirus Returnees Are Being Monitored in Nebraska and Georgia
Eighteen American passengers from the MV Hondius are under federal monitoring in two states, on an Andes-strain protocol with rules most readers have never had to read.
The FDA's All-Oral AML Regimen Is Still an Eligibility Story
An oral combination for newly diagnosed AML is approved for a narrow population, and the label has not widened overnight.
What the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program Did, and What Cruise Passengers Can Ask Now
The CDC program that inspected cruise ships has been cut, and the questions a passenger can still ask before boarding have not moved.
Jay Bhattacharya Defends the No-Daily-Briefing CDC Six Weeks From a Three-Country World Cup
An emerging-disease cluster in 16 states meets a CDC director who has decided silence is the discipline.