If ongoing measles outbreaks are not contained by the end of January, the U.S. could lose its elimination status for the disease, reflecting a drop in vaccination rates, experts told ABC News. The U.S ...

Six people have died of leptospirosis, a rare bacterial illness often found in contaminated water. The storm increased the risk of contracting the disease, officials said. By Frances Robles Reporting ...

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has confirmed that an outbreak infecting at least nine people in the south was caused by the deadly Marburg virus, the World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom ...

As flu season gets underway, global health experts are increasingly worried about a new strain of the virus that popped up in June — four months after the makeup of this year’s flu shots had been ...

Jerome Lorenz has received funding from The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation, the Batchelor Foundation and the Ron Magill Conservation Endowment. He is retired from the National Audubon ...

A deadly measles outbreak in Texas ended in August, but outbreaks in other parts of the United States continue to add hundreds of new measles cases to this year’s record national total. There have ...

This article is republished from the Council on Foreign Relations. Read the original article here. Vaccination campaigns are widely considered to be a public health success story. Since Edward Jenner ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported on Friday an increase in measles cases in the Americas, particularly North America, amid rising deaths from the infection in ...

The Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New York City is now blamed for another death and continues to spread. Three people have died and at least 64 others have gotten sick since the outbreak was first ...

Nearly two dozen people have developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, according to the state’s Department of Health. Florida officials didn’t initially ...

A New Yorker has died and at least 22 others have been sickened in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, city health officials said in an alarming update. The cluster of pneumonia-like illness ...