The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it would join a conference hosted by the World Health Organization in ...

A meeting of a committee which advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy has been canceled, a committee ...

Lab tests suggest a strain of the flu virus circulating this season may not be "well-recognized" by the flu vaccine.

Giving people an uncontextualized list of possible vaccine side effects is not the kind of "informed consent" worth promoting ...

Measles is a highly contagious airborne disease caused by a virus, and can be severe or even fatal. According to the U.S.

Yahoo News answers some of the most frequently asked questions about measles amid the Texas and New Mexico outbreaks.

The newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has some controversial opinions on health that ...

New Mexico’s congressional delegation is urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rehire fired ...

Symptoms typically start within 7-14 days of exposure, but also have been known to appear as long as 21 days after initial ...

On her first day on the job last week, new US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins held a meeting to review the agency’s options for controlling the bird flu outbreak and possibly help ...

As of Feb. 20, there were a total of 93 measles cases reported in eight states: Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New ...