The many agencies that responded to the Sept. 29 BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, Georgia, communicated poorly with the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...

So far this year, authorities have identified at least 13 cases of locally acquired dengue, up from two in 2023, with two in ...

In addition to pertussis, the Department of Public Health is also watching the spread of bacteria that can cause walking ...

As federal health scientists await a potential takeover by RFK Jr. and other medical skeptics in the second Trump ...

According to the state health department, the most recent outbreak ... but he is happy public health officials have reached out to community leaders like Imams, prayer leaders at mosques.

This year in South Dakota, of 649 documented cases of syphilis, 546 have been among Native Americans, who make up only 9 ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a "highly contagious acute respiratory illness" that starts with mild symptoms, Goldstein said. Infected individuals later develop a severe cough that can ...

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing Covid-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread around the US, health officials recently found that 7 percent of dairy workers tested on ...

“I’m not aware of anything else like this,” Adriane Casalotti, chief of government and public affairs for the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the Associated Press. She ...