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Throughout the global dengue fever outbreak in 2023, a top-rated Mexico destination suddenly became a substantive hot spot for this mosquito-transmitted disease.
According to Mexico's Health Ministry dengue report in October 2023, there were 30,320 confirmed dengue cases on the Yucatan Peninsula between January and October 7, 2023.
This data confirms dengue cases have increased in this area of Mexico by 337% this year.

For the first time, an influenza vaccine sprayed into the nose that protects people against the seasonal flu has been accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
If approved by the FDA, FLUMIST® QUADRIVALENT will be the first live nasal influenza vaccine available to be self-administered by eligible patients or administered by caregivers.

For the first time, scientists deliberately infected women with the Zika virus to learn whether such a strategy could help test vaccine candidates against the pathogen, wrote Mariana Lenharo in a recent article published by the journal Nature.
These study participants who were infected only reported mild symptoms.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a complete response letter in May 2023, it indicated that the agency could not approve the biologics license application (BLA) for a Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) vaccine candidate, thousands of people impacted by this common cancer were disappointed.