One of the best ways to avoid getting sick is quite simple, according to Prianka Chawla, MD, Primary Care Physician at Tufts Medical Center: Keep your distance from people who are sick. But because of ...

While pertussis — known as whooping cough — numbers have been spiking nationally, the South Dakota Department of Health ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus ...

As of March 20, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 378 confirmed measles cases and two ...

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the latest on the current bird flu outbreak. If you live near ...

Does avian influenza affect wild birds? Find out if you need to take down bird feeders. Plus learn the risk to backyard ...

Flu is a respiratory illness, and most people identify it through symptoms like sore throat, runny nose, cough, fatigue, and ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...

Dubbed the Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing or AFAST project, some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season — many of them so sudden that families are ...