The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued changes in the 2025 immunization schedule for children, adolescents, and adults. These changes include new and updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, influenza vaccines, meningococcal serogroup B vaccines, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (...
CDC and nursing homes experienced difficulties during a mass enrollment of more than 12,000 facilities into the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to begin reporting COVID-19 data in May 2020. CDC improved the process of nursing home reporting to NHSN throughout the pandemic, but challenges remain. ...
The CDC has issued a food safety alert regarding an outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to cantaloupes. The CDC is concerned about this outbreak because the illnesses are severe, and people in long-term care facilities and childcare centers have gotten sick. Do not eat pre-cut cantaloupes if you don’t...