WASHINGTON, June 26 — United States President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was pulled into political contention over US vaccine policy yesterday, describing the medications as “life-saving” and telling a Senate panel she has not seen evidence linking vaccines and autism.

GENEVA, Nov 15 — The number of measles infections worldwide increased by 20 per cent between 2022 and 2023, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United States (US) health agency CDC, reported the German News Agency (dpa) on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 21 — The KP.3.1.1 Covid-19 variant, now the predominant SARS-CoV-2 variant circulating in the United States (US), has been causing increasing infections in the country, the latest data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 21 — The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for over 80 per cent of new Covid-19 cases reported in the United States, according to the latest estimates of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

WASHINGTON, Jan 2 — The United States has set several new records in Covid-19 indicators as the pandemic enters its third year, and health experts have warned of a "tidal wave" of the pandemic in 2022, said Xinhua.