Here's what you need to know about the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, and what bird flu might mean to you, your ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted infections and vaccinate adults Friday, as part of a sweeping purge of all ...

Intervention models checked against electronic medical record data show ways to help improve infection control practices and ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

In his first Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Cholera has remained a persistent public health challenge in Zambia since the country’s first reported outbreak in 1977. The ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild ...

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is warning that some clients of an Ottawa beauty salon with locations on Innes Road and Bank ...

There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, global health faces constant threats from new and re-emerging pathogens. Recent devastating outbreaks of diseases ...

Shigella infections are preventable through simple hygiene measures, public health experts say, like giving homeless people ...