While COVID numbers remain comparably low, there are some indications that we might see an uptick in cases by the end of the summer. This is due, in part, to the high levels of travel – as TAG has seen...

While TAG’s recent article discussed the continuing transmission of COVID, particularly from travel during the busy summer season, the U.S. has reached a milestone against the virus, with CDC and other statistics showing that the number of daily excess deaths...

Pertussis Cases Whoop to Worst Outbreak in Decades As noted in this week’s public health news from TAG, reported cases of pertussis (whooping cough) have been increasing in a number of countries recently with the outbreak considered the worst in...

In last week’s public health article, we discussed the fact that measles were increasing due, in part, to international travel. Following up on a similar topic, members of the TAG Team have recently experienced public health travel issues ourselves, with...

While the global nature of the food industry has great benefits, it also causes a number of challenges, in this case, the transmission of infectious disease. As of June 8, 2023, there were 16 confirmed U.S. cases of measles (rubeola) across...

Based on the current and expected evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is advising vaccine manufacturers to update formulations to be used beginning this fall to the monovalent XBB.1.5 lineage of the Omicron...

As noted in our Key Points this week, Australia has seen a significant uptick in COVID-19 and flu hospitalizations in recent weeks. As we’ve discussed in previous public health articles, this is an important trend for Northern Hemisphere countries because...

When an outbreak has been identified, the next step is to stop the outbreak by first tracing and then cutting off routes of transmission. Such tracking can be done through spatiotemporal clustering and contact tracing, but as the report states,...

A California norovirus outbreak of at least 100 cases has been traced back to a single restaurant. A staff member who worked at two fast-food locations tested positive for hepatitis A, putting customers of both sites at significant risk. Cases...

A new COVID Omicron subvariant (XBB.1.16, known as “Arcturus”) has been making headlines recently for being highly contagious and causing conjunctivitis (pink eye). As discussed in a report from a California county health department, people who are infected with Arcturus...