New in MMWR: COVID-19 vaccine booster safety, fungal diseases, and more

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Read reports on fungal diseases, COVID-19 vaccine safety & more

August 19, 2022

SURVEILLANCE SUMMARIES

	Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, and Blastomycosis — United States, 2019 A CDC report provides an update on the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis in the United States. These fungal diseases are caused by inhalation of fungal spores and often mimic bacterial or viral pneumonia.

WEEKLY REPORT

	Safety Monitoring of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 Years — United States, May 17–July 31, 2022 Among children aged 5–11 years receiving COVID-19 vaccine, local and systemic reactions were reported to v-safe with similar frequency after doses 2 and 3; specific reactions differed in severity.

• Donor Human Milk Use in Advanced Neonatal Care Units — United States, 2020
• Progress Toward Measles Elimination — South-East Asia Region, 2003–2020
• COVID-19 Outbreaks and Mortality Among Public Transportation Workers — California, January 2020–May 2022
• Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022
• Public Health Response to a Case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis in an Unvaccinated Person and Detection of Poliovirus in Wastewater — New York, June–August 2022

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QUICKSTATS

 

Percentage of Adults Aged ≥65 Years Who Drank Four or More Alcoholic Drinks Per Week, by Sex and Age — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020

PDF of the Surveillance Summaries (link) and the Weekly Issue (link).

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MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Briefing Podcast: Week of July 25

The latest MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Briefing is live. This episode covers six reports, including reports highlighting gun carrying among youth, the safety of a second COVID-19 booster dose among adults aged 50 years and older and more. Listen and subscribe on: Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google Play.

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