CDC Media Briefing — New Vital Signs Report Hepatitis C is deadly, but curable: Why are so few Americans getting treatment?

Hepatitis C can cause advanced liver disease, liver cancer, and death and affects millions in the United States. Yet, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report, less than a third of people diagnosed with hepatitis C get timely treatment for this curable infection. Join us to learn more about the barriers to hepatitis C..

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Task Force for Global Health will co-host in person the 11th <a href="https://www.iceid.org/">International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID)</a> August 7-10, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotel in Atlanta, GA.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified for the first time in domestic environmental samples the bacteria that causes a rare and serious disease called <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/melioidosis/index.html">melioidosis</a>. The bacteria, <em>Burkholderia pseudomallei </em>or<em> B. pseudomallei</em>, was identified through sampling of soil and water in the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pleased to announce two winners of the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/reach-lark-award/index.html">2022 REACH Lark Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge</a>. The winners are Thamara Labrousse from Live Healthy Miami Gardens (Florida) and Healthy Savannah (Georgia).

A CDC investigation notice regarding a multistate outbreak of <em>Salmonella</em> infections has been posted: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/stanley-07-22/index.html">https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/stanley-07-22/index.html</a>

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a historic 30% increase in overdose deaths in the United States from 2019 to 2020.

Starting today, Sonic Healthcare USA (Sonic) will begin testing for monkeypox using CDC’s orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox.

In 2020, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44 percent for Black* people and 39 percent for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people compared with 2019, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report with drug overdose data from 25 states and the District of Columbia.

A third and fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose offered substantial protection among adults with healthy immune systems who were eligible to receive them during Omicron variant evolution in early 2022.