The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that it will reorganize its Office of Health Equity ...

A second health worker in contact with the Missouri patient who tested positive for bird flu also developed symptoms but wasn ...

The COVID-19 variant KP.3.1.1 rose 12.7% and now makes up over 50% of COVID cases, the CDC Nowcast data tracker shows.

Whooping cough cases are climbing at the fastest pace in years as students across America return to school, U.S. health ...

The deaths coincide with drops in vaccinations among children. As of May 11, just over 53% of children between ages 6 months ...

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

The CDC just released data that show a lot of children died of the flu last year. Here's what doctors recommend.

The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) ...

D.C.-area doctors say they’re worried many eligible children will not receive their flu vaccine this year. It’s something ...

New federal data shows that life expectancy in Maryland increased slightly in 2021, a feat that only a handful of states ...

Streptococcus is a contagious bacteria that can cause different types of infections, from minor ones such as strep throat to potentially deadly ones such as necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating ...

For the first time in decades, the U.S. is experiencing a sudden and unprecedented decline in overdose deaths. MSNBC medical ...