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Anticipating and guiding prevention for periods of elevated vector-borne disease risk.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tied CDC measles death counts to NCHS coding, so the dashboard lists one death where Pennsylvania reports four. Former NCHS officials say coding delays and suppression of counts below 10 will leave the federal figure behind small outbreaks.
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Pennsylvania has recorded 676 measles cases and three deaths in recent weeks. The CDC has not registered the two infant deaths as measles-related, and its director says the state did not notify the agency of the third.
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About one pregnancy in ten now carries the diagnosis, and the specialists quoted say the count is at once an undercount and partly a product of better detection, which is what makes the slope hard to read.
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A Northwestern review of Chicago emergency and urgent care visits above 92.6 degrees Fahrenheit found more than a dozen diagnostic categories rising, in units no heat plan staffs.
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Jalapenos from a single distributor moved into salsa, guacamole and dressings at five national grocers plus Chipotle and Qdoba. That is a supply-chain mapping problem, not a handwashing one.
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A new PNAS paper collects nine surprises from more than three decades of monitoring in Dutchess County. Acorns and mice track nymphal tick numbers; deer abundance does not.
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