The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer-reviewed journal launched in 1995, is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division's flagship publication. The MSMR provides monthly evidence-based estimates of the incidence, distribution, impact, and trends of health-related conditions among service members.

This report describes the incidence, clinical characteristics, specifically prior illness or immunization, clinical course, and electrodiagnostic findings of U.S. active component service members with clinically confirmed Guillain-Barré syndrome, from 2014 through 2022.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides chikungunya case counts for all Military Health System beneficiaries, from 2020 through 2024, utilizing Defense Health Agency data confirmed via medical chart review.

This case report details the process of differential diagnosis of Ross River virus in an individual diagnosed in Queensland, Australia in 2024. The report demonstrates the need for better clinical awareness among medical care providers for U.S. service members presenting with febrile illness or joint pain following deployment to Australia.

Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

This study utilized self-reported racial and ethnic data from 235,608 live births to pregnant active component service members documented by the Birth and Infant Health Research program.

Since 2004, MSMR has published annual updates on the incidence of cold weather injuries affecting U.S. Armed Forces members for the five most recent cold seasons. This 2025 report discusses the occurrence of frostbite, immersion hand and foot injuries, hypothermia, as well as “other specified and unspecified effects of reduced temperature.”

This report describes the seven-year prevalence of five perinatal mental health disorders among U.S. active duty service women: trauma and stressor-related disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, depressive disorders, suicidal ideation or attempt, and eating disorders.

This report summarizes the numbers, types and incidence rates of mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a five-year surveillance period.

This report examines trends in the prevalence of obesity over the past decade among U.S. active component service members and civilians, ages 17-62 years, overall and by sex, comparing age-standardized distributions of body mass index.

Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

This report describes the incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia in male Air Force basic trainees and compares follow up testing and clinical outcomes with female basic trainees.

This annual update summarizes numbers and trends of new HIV antibody seropositivity among U.S. active and reserve component service members, in addition to National Guard members.