People ages 6 months and older should receive a vaccine every year. It is also recommended that people over 65 years old get ...

FluMist is a nasal spray manufactured by AstraZeneca that has been used to protect against influenza in the United States ...

Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...

New York state reported its first case of eastern equine encephalitis in nearly a decade on Friday. The rare mosquito-borne virus was detected in Ulster County, the New York State Department of Health ...

On his first day of school at Newcomer Academy, Maikel Tejeda was whisked to the school library. The 7th grader didn’t know ...

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows overdose deaths in the United States are dropping, ...

COVID symptoms can be mild, severe, or nonexistent, according to the CDC—and can appear as late as two weeks after you’ve ...

Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, ...

The disease is still common in many parts of the world, and measles reaches the U.S. through unvaccinated travelers.

The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

14,569 cases of whooping cough have been reported in total for 2024 so far — four times higher than the agency's reported ...