New CDC Advice: Seniors Should Get 2nd Updated COVID Shot Now!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made a forceful recommendation on Wednesday that adults aged 65 years and older should receive a second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the fall 2023 season. This emphatic guidance comes as senior citizens still account for an outsized proportion of coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths, even […]
The CDC Warns: Travelers to These 30 Countries Have a “High Risk” of Getting Polio
Due to the poliovirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are telling visitors to take extra care when going to places like Canada, the United Kingdom, Madagascar, and Indonesia. In a newly updated advisory, the agency said that people traveling to 30 countries are at risk for getting the disease and that they should […]
CDC Warns Doctors of Chicago About Mpox Outbreak and Increase in Cases
Concerns have been expressed about a potential rise in cases among homosexual and bisexual males throughout the summer due to a recent spike in mpox diagnoses in Chicago, many of them in people who were immunized against the virus and at least one in someone who had previously contracted it. The Chicago Public Health Department […]
US CDC Says, Pfizer Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccine may be Linked to Brain Stroke
On Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that the updated Covid-19 shot made by US drugmaker Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech could be linked to a type of brain stroke in older adults. CNN said that the CDC still advises people to […]
