Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

Health authorities say the threat of infection for people remained low even amid the spread of H5N1 virus among birds and ...

I think there are some states that are responsive, but it’s really been somewhat piecemeal…It leaves room for us to not ...

Officials are urging pet owners not to feed their pets raw food or raw milk and to avoid letting them roam outside.

As bird flu outbreaks continue to affect animals, experts answer questions about keeping pets and their owners healthy ...

Amid a growing measles outbreak in west Texas and New Mexico, many doctors and nurses are fielding questions from patients ...

The cutting-edge technology used in COVID-19 shots may lead to new treatments for other diseases. But some conservatives are ...

During one of the most active flu seasons in recent memory, infectious disease experts at Cancer Center say many of the ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

California health officials confirm human cases of bird flu linked to Central Valley dairy farms, with 37 workers and one ...

While humans can contract bird flu, UNLV professor and epidemiologist Brian Labus says the latest strains are “not a general ...

Most of those infections have been seen in wild bird populations, with two known instances of backyard poultry flocks ...