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US Measles Cases Cross 2,000 as Summer Travel Season Puts 26-Year Elimination Status at Risk

New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - Daisy Hildebrand was eight years old, and she had no underlying health conditions. She died on April 3, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas, from measles pulmonary failure, the ... Read More


Pentagon Reverses Hegseth's Flu Vaccine Opt-Out After 275 Recruits Fall Ill at Lackland

TL;DR, June 26 -- The Pentagon on Wednesday ordered all military branches to reinstate mandatory flu vaccinations for recruits, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's April decision to make the sh... Read More


French Doctor Brings Ebola to France in First Case Outside Africa Since DRC Outbreak Began

On Wednesday, June 26 -- PARIS - The first Ebola patient in France arrived quietly, isolating himself before French health authorities had confirmed the diagnosis. The doctor had returned from a human... Read More


Britain's Third Red Heat Warning in a Row Puts NHS on Emergency Footing

LONDON, June 26 -- England's third consecutive red heat health alert expires at 11pm tonight across six regions, marking only the second such declaration in British history. Gosport, Hampshire hit 36.... Read More


California Confirms Clade I Mpox Community Spread as World Cup Amplifies Import Risk

LOS ANGELES, June 26 -- The man in Long Beach had not traveled internationally. He had not returned from a country where mpox clade I was circulating, had no known contact with anyone who had. When th... Read More


Cyclospora Outbreak Grows to 17 States With Source Unknown as US Summer Peak Begins

The outbreak, June 26 -- For most of the people now counted among this summer's Cyclospora cases, the illness began unremarkably: a cramping stomach, a loose stool, an afternoon spent near a bathroom ... Read More


US Measles Tops 2,000 as Summer Travel Threatens 26-Year Elimination

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Daisy Hildebrand was eight years old, and she had no underlying health conditions. She died on April 3, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas, from measles pulmonary failure, the second unvac... Read More


Mayo Clinic: Cancer Fight Starts in Thymus, Rewriting the PD-1 Playbook

ROCHESTER, June 26 -- For decades, immunologists have thought of the thymus as a finishing school, a place where the immune system graduates its soldiers before sending them into the bloodstream to be... Read More


Routine Shingles Vaccine May Prevent 1 in 17 Dementia Diagnoses in Nursing Home Patients

PROVIDENCE, June 26 -- When an older adult is admitted to a skilled nursing facility, the clinical team works through an intake process measured in hours. Medications need reconciling. Pressure-sore r... Read More


France Confirms First European Ebola Case as DRC Outbreak Tops 1,100

PARIS, June 26 -- He crossed two continents and landed at Charles de Gaulle with what felt like a headache. By the time French health authorities confirmed he was carrying the Bundibugyo strain of Ebo... Read More