In September 2023, CDC’s Free-Living and Intestinal Amebas Lab confirmed a case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, an infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, in a child from Arkansas who had played at a splash pad 2-3 days prior to initial symptom onset.
In Alaska, the average annual rate of newly reported chronic hepatitis C cases decreased by 30% from 142 during 2016–2019 to 99 during 2020–2023, with an average for the overall period of 121 cases per 100,000 adults.
People who died of synthetic opioid (e.g., fentanyl) overdoses that also involved psychostimulants (e.g., methamphetamine) were often employed in physically demanding jobs Conversely, those who died of synthetic opioid overdoses involving cocaine were often employed in less physically strenuous jobs.
