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The World Health Organization is now recommending that countries include an HIV drug newly approved for prevention, ...

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

With 1,288 cases and outbreaks in 14 states, the U.S. is facing its largest measles spread since 1991, prompting renewed CDC ...

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Thanks to the introduction of a vaccine in 1963, measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. Now the highly contagious disease has reemerged as a threat as declining vaccination rates fuel ...

After menopause, individuals with cardiovascular disease and weight gain may face a higher risk of breast cancer, recent ...

The U.S. is having the worst measles outbreak in decades. Here’s what experts recommend you do to avoid getting sick.

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...