CDC Approves and Expands Recommendations for RSV and COVID Vaccines

The CDC has quietly adopted vaccine recommendations from its April meeting under new leadership aligned with anti-vaccine views, while the FDA overruled scientists' approval for two COVID vaccines, limiting their use to older or at-risk populations. Additionally, local health departments face staffing and funding challenges, and Cambodia reports its 12th human H5N1 case of the year amid rising poultry-related infections. The NACCHO supports wastewater monitoring expansion and highlights declining mpox cases in Africa, hindered by vaccine funding shortages.