Doctors stress importance of tick prevention as CDC reports sharp increase in related emergency room visits in 2025.

Of the eight named by Kennedy, perhaps the most experienced in vaccine policy is Meissner, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases, who also previously served on FDA's vaccine advisory panel.

A U.S. Senate committee has approved Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

With mosquitoes in Illinois, Indiana, and now Kentucky testing positive for West Nile virus, it's more important than ever to make sure you take precautions to prevent mosquito bites.

Trump administration policy tug-of-war between big medical groups that want COVID vaccines back on CDC schedule for healthy ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

The shift reflects the current public health situation, marked by declines in human cases as well as animal detections.

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year ...

Tests have identified Nipah virus in two patients from India’s Kerala state, one of them an 18-year-old woman from Malappuram ...

Effectiveness against both herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia remained stable for at least 4 years after vaccination.

For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But today, measles is roaring ...

An Alaskan woman has died after developing an 'uncommon, but severe, complication of untreated gonorrhea', with warnings ...