The outbreak escalated just as the US’s foremost vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ascended as its top health care official. On February 26, the Texas health department reported the first ...

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Fiji health authorities are scrambling to stem an outbreak of HIV, as growing meth use and alarming needle-sharing trends accelerate the spread of the virus.

Clues of an expanding sea lice outbreak also came from some salmon companies themselves. In its 2006 fourth quarter report (released this past February) the company Cermaq (Mainstream) wrote ...

A rapidly spreading outbreak of measles in Texas has killed one person, health officials said on Wednesday. It marks the first mortality from measles in the US in nearly a decade. The victim was ...

Kennedy Jr. downplayed the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed a child and resulted in over 120 cases of the disease since January. “We are following the measles epidemic every day ...

He also downplayed the situation, stating, "It's not unusual. You have measles outbreaks every year." Since the start of the year, more than 130 measles cases have been reported in west Texas and ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first death associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than 100 people.

A norovirus outbreak on a Holland America Line cruise ship sickened nearly 90 people – marking the third time the wretched stomach virus has swept through the ocean liner this year, health ...

The first death has been reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, according to a press release sent out by the Texas Department of State Health Services Wednesday. The victim was an ...