A nationwide surge in pertussis has reached Erie County, which reported 23 cases of the vaccine-preventable disease in 2024.

Since the lifting of COVID-19 quarantine measures, various infectious diseases such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough, ...

Ohio Department of Health director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff cautioned Ohioans to continue to take these illnesses seriously.

Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

U.S. Government (USG) funded the renovation of the Cameroon’s National Public Health Laboratory in 2016 to strengthen coordination of laboratory testing activities in Cameroon and comply with ...

Bronchitis is an infection that causes a cough. It happens when the tubes that carry air into the lungs, called the “bronchi,” get infected. Bronchitis usually oc­curs when a person gets a cold or the ...

COVID-19 made its debut in December 2019 and has since caused the deaths of more than 7.1 million people, according to the World Health Organization. While pharmaceutical companies rushed to find a ...

Do you feel that the wintertime sicknesses are sticking around longer this year? 2 News' Erin Christy spoke with a local ...

According to a 2024 study led by the World Health Organization, an estimated 154 million lives have been saved by global ...

Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against ...

Vaccination rates for shots that prevent diseases like polio, measles and others have fallen dramatically for some of the ...