Medical Surveillance Monthly Report

Click on the icon to open, download and save the latest issue of MSMRThe March 2026 issue of MSMR features two full reports and a Surveillance Snapshot, beginning with a report on mortality rates among U.S. service members, from 2010 to 2020; followed by a report on the incidence and burden of endometriosis among U.S. active component service women, 2017 to 2024; with a Surveillance Snapshot on mid-year populations by sex, age, and race and ethnicity of U.S. active component service members, from 2023 to 2025; and concludes with the monthly summary of the most frequent reportable medical events within the Military Health System.

The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, published continually since 1995, is a peer-reviewed journal of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division. MSMR publishes monthly reports describing the incidence, distribution, impact, or trends of illness and injuries among members of the United States Armed Forces and other beneficiaries of the Military Health System.

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Oct. 1, 2025

MSMR Vol. 32 No. 10 - October 2025

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The October 2025 MSMR presents five full reports: measles, mumps, rubella and varicella within the Military Health System; seasonal influenza hospitalization among service members; BMI, physical fitness, and COVID-19 hospitalization in the Army; adverse pregnancy outcomes in female service members after COVID-19 infection or vaccination; long COVID ...

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Sept. 1, 2025

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2024

This report presents an updated summary of the health care burdens documented in 2024 among non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, which provides comprehensive health care to a diverse and heterogeneous population of family members and military retirees from all branches of military service.

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Sept. 1, 2025

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among active component members of the U.S. Coast Guard, 2024

This report quantifies the impacts of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2024, employing the same disease classification system and morbidity burden measures in the general active component burden analysis report.

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Sept. 1, 2025

Morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among deployed active and reserve component service members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024

This report focuses on service member health care encounters during deployment to two theaters of operations, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), where the largest concentrations of service members are deployed without access to fixed medical facilities.

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Sept. 1, 2025

Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries among active component members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2024

This annual summary report of various illnesses and injuries among members of the active component of the U.S. Armed Forces quantifies patient diagnoses and major condition categories with several health care burden measures derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study.