After the rofecoxib (Vioxx) withdrawal in 2004 made painfully clear how much harm a passive reporting system can miss, ...

New Hampshire’s two biggest anti-vaccine bills stalled out this session. HB 1719, which would have removed hepatitis B from ...

The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) annual health statistics report paints a sobering picture. Too many people are dying ...

A Spanish passenger on the MV Hondius cruise ship who was in quarantine at a military hospital in Madrid is now confirmed to ...

Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy ...

The number of people sickened by three multistate outbreaks of the Salmonella bacterium has rocketed to 184. The Centers for ...

A COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 51 new measles cases in a nationwide outbreak that has ...

While most respondents to a survey of US backyard flock owners had heard of avian influenza, about one third didn’t know the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today reduced the number of reported hantavirus cases from the Dutch cruise ship MV ...

Infants born to mothers who received the tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine during pregnancy are ...

A Public Health Alerts report today details successful administration of intramuscular immunoglobulin (IMIG) as post-exposure ...