NH medical providers look to outside sources in absence of communication from CDC

For the past couple of months, the information the Centers for Disease Control shares with medical providers about vaccines, diseases and health information has been conflicting or hard to obtain . As a result, doctors and other medical professionals in New Hampshire say they are now relying more heavily on information from other governing bodies on disease prevention and vaccinations.

Typically, the CDC regularly communicates with providers in late summer about how diseases are spreading across the world and the patterns of how these illnesses may affect specific groups like the elderly, children and pregnant people. That information is particularly valuable as flu and cold season approaches in mid-September.

But the CDC’s Health Action Network hasn’t been updated since March.