The Mid America Regional Council announced on Friday, Dec. 19, that flu, whooping cough and measles cases are all rising ...

The CDC says that so far this flu season, there have been over 4.6 million cases, 49,000 hospitalizations and 1,900 deaths ...

According to the CDC, 64 people in 22 states have been infected with the same strain of salmonella. At least 20 people have been hospitalized, a rate higher than usually seen in outbreaks traced to ...

The top 5 infectious disease stories on AJMC.com this year covered both outbreaks and government-related developments. Bird ...

The CDC said it's investigating the possibility that the consumption of raw oysters may have infected 64 people across 22 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on ...

Early in her career, Dr. Kanika Cunningham cared for a pregnant patient who didn't know she had Hepatitis B when she went into labor. When the infection was discovered during delivery, Cunningham was ...

Although the U.S. birth rate is on the decline, the number of women having babies in one age group has increased. Those new mothers are 40 and older.

Further complicating the flu season is a new influenza virus strain renamed “H3N2 subclade K,” which is circulating widely ...

Public health officials believe raw oysters are behind an outbreak of Salmonella infections that has sickened people from ...

Top doctors are defying federal health officials over changes to childhood vaccines, vowing to keep lifesaving hepatitis B ...