The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
On Tuesday, June 15, The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health—chaired by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)—held a hearing entitled,...
Jun 17, 2021 | Cameron Etessami
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Jun 03, 2021 | Beth Hess
Both in-person learning and routine well-child visits have been disrupted over the past year due to COVID-19 and many children have...
Mar 25, 2021 | Beth Hess
On October 22, 2020, CDC released the results of the 2019 National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child), which monitors coverage with...
Oct 23, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
In support of National Immunization Awareness Month activities this August, NACCHO is joining “Catch-Up to Get Ahead,” a national...
Aug 12, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Vaccinate Your Family (VYF) has released a new series of videos that capture the stories of five individuals who share their...
Mar 10, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Clinical Infectious Diseases published an article on a review of measles outbreak cost estimates from the U.S. in the post-elimination...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Last year marked the highest number of measles cases in a single year in the United States since 1992, with a total of 1,282 confirmed...
The New York Times and CNN have published articles that explore how measles can have devastating effects on the immune system that...
Nov 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On Tuesday, June 15, The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health—chaired by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)—held a hearing entitled, “Booster Shot: Enhancing Public Health Through Vaccine Legislation.”
Both in-person learning and routine well-child visits have been disrupted over the past year due to COVID-19 and many children have fallen behind on receiving recommended vaccines.
On October 22, 2020, CDC released the results of the 2019 National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child), which monitors coverage with vaccines recommended for children age
In support of National Immunization Awareness Month activities this August, NACCHO is joining “Catch-Up to Get Ahead,” a national effort to address the alarming declines in routine childhood immunization that happened as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccinate Your Family (VYF) has released a new series of videos that capture the stories of five individuals who share their first-hand experiences with vaccine-preventable diseases and disease outbreaks, and their often devastating consequences. Each of the stories has a unique perspective, but all of them offer the same message “please vaccinate to protect your […]
Clinical Infectious Diseases published an article on a review of measles outbreak cost estimates from the U.S. in the post-elimination era (2004-2017). The abstract is included below. Despite the elimination of measles in the U.S. in the year 2000, cases continue to occur with measles outbreaks having occurred in various jurisdictions in the U.S. in 2018 […]
Last year marked the highest number of measles cases in a single year in the United States since 1992, with a total of 1,282 confirmed cases. More than 73% of these cases were linked to outbreaks in New York, affecting under-vaccinated communities. Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000; however, the sustained […]
The New York Times and CNN have published articles that explore how measles can have devastating effects on the immune system that persist much longer than the illness itself. The articles reference new studies published in Science and Science Immunology.
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