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The CDC It’s asking people to stop using a certain brand of eye drops behind Reports of infections across the country. The CDC linked the EzriCare artificial teardrops from several States in the country to the illness. The CDC is looking into 50 cases linked to permanent vision loss and the death of one person. […]
While it is expected to take years for the potential vaccine to reach the market, regulators are getting ready for a final clinical trial for a Lyme Disease vaccine. If it were to gain regulators’ approval, it would become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for humans in the US. The new vaccine is called […]
In late July, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the polio virus in wastewater samples from Rockland County after identifying the first case in the U.S. since 2013 in an unvaccinated young adult in Rockland County. NYS Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett stated: […]
The CDC will no longer use their program to trace COVID-19 outbreaks on commercial cruise ships in the United States. The initiative, that’s known as the COVID-19 Program For Cruise Ships ended earlier this week. The program monitored COVID-19 outbreaks for the last couple years. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc-cruise-ships-covid-19-tracking-program-ends/
Jif issued a voluntary recall for its Jif Peanut Butter and peanut butter products. The recall is on select Jif products but several other food companies have added their products to the list. The recall is due to the potential of salmonella contamination. If you have any of the products on the recall list the […]
New York State Health officials announced over this weekend that a New York City resident has tested positive for the virus that causes monkeypox. While they wait for further confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control, the unidentified patient isolates and treats the case as positive. According to the CDC, Monkeypox is “ a rare […]
As we continue to combat COVID-19, another hurdle has been cleared for parents who want their children vaccinated against COVID-19. The United States Food and Drug Administration, or the FDA, has clear emergency use for a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The booster can be administrated at least […]
Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to limit the use of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA deemed this vaccine as a last resort for adults who cannot accept a shot from another manufacturer. The reason being? Researchers from the FDA and the CDC found that the vaccine resulted in 60 […]
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle overturned the federal government’s transportation mask mandate that was just recently extended. According to Judge Mizelle, she claimed she could overturn the mandate on her interpretation of the term “sanitation.” In the 1944 Public Health Service Act, it states that if the government is trying to prevent the […]
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