The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and ...

A new COVID-19 variant named "Nimbus" has been detected in the U.S. and is spreading rapidly. Here's what to know about ...

One of the many executive actions taken by President Trump on his first official day in office was withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has died, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Louisiana has higher cancer ...

A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has died, health officials said Monday.

The World Health Organization declared recent outbreaks of a new form of mpox, previously referred to as "monkeypox," in Africa as a global health emergency.

The World Health Organization logged 939 human cases globally since 2003, of which 464 were fatal, although most cases and deaths occurred prior to 2015.

It comes nearly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Mpox has infected an estimated 18,000 people and… ...