The Atlanta-based CDC is charged with protecting Americans from outbreaks and other public health threats. Before the job ...

Two top Louisiana officials who are physicians are encouraging residents to get vaccinated against measles as an outbreak ...

Officials report that the situation is under control, with only a few emergency calls received in the storm’s aftermath.

During 2020, approximately one in five adults in the United States reported having ever received a diagnosis of depression by ...

Three of the viruses — flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person through germ-filled ...

Republican Louisiana state Sens. Mike Fesi and Patrick McMath are sponsoring legislation prohibiting fluoridation of public ...

Louisiana officials say the state's poultry farmers remain unaffected by bird flu. The key, experts say, may be Louisiana ...

Louisianans reported having asthma in their lifetime, slightly higher than the national average. See where other states stand ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously ...

The program had been created about 10 years ago to help the CDC remedy embarrassing lab-safety failures. The cuts may not have an immediate impact, but they likely will haunt the nation in the months ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people ...