Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Lawrence O. Gostin discusses the importance of equity and science in the face of threats to global health security.

The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for ...

The measles outbreak has hit a new high, with over 1,200 cases reported in 2025 so far. The last time infections were that ...

The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of ...

Thanks to the introduction of a vaccine in 1963, measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. Now the highly contagious disease has reemerged as a threat as declining vaccination rates fuel ...

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, and the year is only half over. The national case count reached 1,288 on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the ...

A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a pandemic in ... The report looked at adults aged 20 and older using the CDC's Alcohol-Related Disease Impact, or ARDI, tool and mortality ...