Pregnant women face additional risks. The authors estimate that listeriosis occurs 12 to 14 times more frequently in pregnant ...

Many parents have never heard of Hib, because the vaccine worked so well that the disease all but disappeared. Public health ...

Kenyan officials confirmed today the country’s first Ebola case linked to the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of ...

A Tampa, Florida-area woman died last month from dengue fever. The woman was 80 years old and is the state’s first fatality ...

Zimbabwe refused to sign an agreement, which experts fear could have severe health consequences. Indeed, the United States ...

All of the patients in the study were on antibiotics at one point during the study, and many received broad-spectrum ...

A new study in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their state partners analyzes the patients hospitalized during the ...

The bacteria Yersinia pestis is linked to three main types of plague. The first, bubonic plague, is the one associated with ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has closed its investigation into this summer’s cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to ...

The largest-ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached 8,300 infections and 4,018 deaths, as a ...

After a quiet summer of little activity, H5N1 avian flu has come roaring back on commercial poultry operations across the ...

With three months left of 2026, the United States is closing in on a number of measles cases that would have been unheard of ...