A senior scientist overseeing the measles response by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a recent pullback of pandemic funding from states has hurt Texas’s response to its ...

Soni said the hope is to raise enough money to keep GMRLN in existence into next year, to tide it over while people work to develop and secure funding for a newer version of the network that does ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

There are funding limitations in light of COVID-19 funding dissipating," he said. The CDC previously deployed a team of 15 to Texas last month to aid in the response.

Experts, policymakers and global health partners have called for stronger, coordinated action to prevent backsliding on ...

The Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network, which comprises more than 700 labs in more than 150 countries, is at risk of imminent closure, precipitated by the Trump administration’s ...

Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine … ...

But in Texas, his department’s cuts mean state and local health departments are losing $125 million in immunization-related federal funding as they deal with the measles outbreak.

Measles cases are likely being underreported in the U.S. as public ... and it is helping standardize and expand wastewater surveillance. ... the CDC slashed $11.4 billion in Covid funding ...

The more than 700 measles cases reported this year in the U.S. have already surpassed last year’s total. The vast majority — more than 540 — are in Texas, but cases have popped up in 23 ...

The smallpox eradication strategy focused on surveillance and containment. ... As measles dropped, so did federal funding. After the decrease in funding, there was another resurgence of measles.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 ...