Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.

This report describes the incidence rate of colorectal cancer among active component U.S. military service members between 2010 and 2022.

A team of U.S. Army infectious disease experts are working together to gather and analyze the genomic sequence of mosquitos following the first confirmed nontravel related malaria case in Maryland in more than 40 years.

This report provides an update through June 2023 of routine screening results for antibodies to HIV among members of the U.S. military. From January 2018 through June 2023, approximately 7 million U.S. military service members (active component, reserve component, and national guard) were tested for HIV antibodies; 1,502 were identified as HIV ...

Reportable Medical Events are documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by Military Health System providers and public health officials to monitor, control, and prevent the occurrence and spread of diseases of public health interest or readiness importance.

This Surveillance Snapshot presents the incidence of the 10 leading cancers among active component service members of the U.S. Armed Forces diagnosed from January 2018 through December 2022.

This is the first known study examining the rates of seropositivity for Ross River virus in a naïve U.S. Military population prior to an outbreak event, which identified a single seroconversion out of 628 deployed U.S. servcie members tested.

U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Force Surgeon held an operational entomology event in support of the Africa Malaria Task Force, July 17-21, in Accra, Ghana. The event brought together more than 70 representatives from 15 African partner nations and focused on the emerging threat of the invasive malaria-causing species in Africa.

Current grooming standards of the U.S. military mandate facial shaving to ensure adequate fitting and sealing of protective masks, but a shaving waiver may be issued for medical reasons such as Pseudofolliculitis barbae, or for religious reasons, among others.

This monthly feature provides the most recent Reportable Medical Event data documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System.

This article presents the medical case report of a 76-year-old man who returned to the U.S. following overseas travel and was admitted at Hawai'i's Tri­pler Army Medical Center with a complicated urinary tract infection due to an extensively resistant strain of E. coli.

This article presents the 2022 results of the active surveillance program for acute respiratory disease and Group A Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus conducted by the Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen at the four Army installations responsible for basic combat training or one-station unit training. This ARD surveillance program rapidly monitors, ...

There’s always a buzz with Naval Hospital Bremerton Preventive Medicine during the summer months. The preventive medicine team is undertaking their seasonal surveillance and prevention for West Nile vector control on U.S. Navy installations in the Pacific northwest.