Dr. Frank Lovecchio shares the warning signs and symptoms of the pneumonic plague after Coconino County sees its first death from the lung infection since 2007.

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

John Robbins, an heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire who rejected the family business to advocate plant-based ...

As my term as acting WHO regional director for Africa draws to a close, I have been reflecting on the resilience and ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

How he coped became a powerful symbol of an individual’s persistence in managing with an impairment. He was, in part, defined ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

Some Americans know the reality of vaccine-preventable diseases all too well: “I just don’t want anybody else to go through ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

Even if someone has no symptoms, they can still shed the virus in their stool and spread it—especially in places with poor sanitation or low vaccine coverage.

What are the symptoms of polio? Polio is a disease which affects the muscles and nerves throughout the body, according to MOH’s HealthHub website.