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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

COVID-19 global outbreaks map, illustrating disease incidence between the years 2019 to 2021 This information is important to epidemiologists because it helps them to understand how diseases spread and identify possible interventions to stop the spread of disease. Plague global outbreaks map, years 1348 to 2021.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

Key recommendations include reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), establishing an Adult Vaccine Program, and prioritizing health equity in all policy decisions. It is well documented that federally-funded, no-cost vaccines led to increased uptake during the height of the COVID pandemic.

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Tetanus: What to Do About This Deadly Infection?

Gideon

Though most cases are found in developing countries, many of them now maintain rigorous vaccination programs and made great strides in eliminating or minimizing the incidence of disease. Image: WHO-UNICEF estimated vaccine coverage of Tetanus graph, 1980 – 2019. Copyright © GIDEON Informatics, Inc.

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Kennedy sends mixed vaccine messages amid Texas measles outbreak

The Hill

For instance, a nationwide outbreak of measles in 2019 led top Trump administration health officials to warn about the greatest number of cases reported in the country since measles was effectively eliminated in 2000. It's certainly more than we've heard from him before, and.

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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch

NC Health News

It is a fantasy to think we can lower vaccination rates and herd immunity in the U.S. During a November 2019 measles epidemic that killed 80 children in Samoa, Kennedy wrote to the countrys prime minister falsely claiming that the measles vaccine was probably causing the deaths. Theres no treatment for it. They are going to die.

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US sees 300-plus measles cases, highest in a year since 2019

The Hill

has recorded more than 300 cases of measles in just the first three months of this year, according to data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most infections recorded in a single year since 2019. In 2019, the U.S. This year's total tops the 285 infections reported for all of last year.

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How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

KFF Health News

. “It is a fantasy to think we can lower vaccination rates and herd immunity in the U.S. ” During a November 2019 measles epidemic that killed 80 children in Samoa, Kennedy wrote to the country’s prime minister falsely claiming that the measles vaccine was probably causing the deaths. . They are going to die.”