This year, people are seeking emergency care for tick bites in the highest level since 2017, according to data from the US ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues new travel warnings in response to disease outbreaks in four ...

Public health departments report increasing hand, foot and mouth disease outbreaks as the contagious virus spreads through ...

A health department remediation has now been completed for the 11 cooling towers with initial positive screening results ...

After a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem that sickened 50 and killed two, here's what to know about the bacterial ...

This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the “red meat allergy,” that nickname is misleading, because alpha-gal syndrome can cause strong reactions to ...

A team at Florida International University is using digital stethoscopes and machine learning to analyze heartbeats, similar ...

World Health Organization and partners have been derailed by mismanagement and blind allegiance to an outdated strategy.

The number of people with COVID-19 in the U.S. is low but increasing, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released Friday.  COVID-19 is trending up in many ...

Though patients with Legionnaires’ disease tend to have flu-like symptoms, the illness does not spread from person to person. You can catch it by breathing in water vapor that contains Legionella ...

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and animals from the bite of a deer tick—also called a black-legged tick—carrying ...