For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children ...

Led by a team of African researchers, first doses of the novel T cell-inducing GRAdHIVNE1 vaccine candidate have been given.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had fired the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...

The nation is experiencing its worst year for the highly contagious disease in decades. Until now, Wisconsin was an island.

It’s back-to-school season, which means parents are shuttling their kids to pediatricians for annual checkups — and advocates for and against states’ exemptions to vaccine mandates for school entry ...

COVID-19 infections are "growing or likely growing in 40 states" in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Chinese officials have announced Covid-like quarantines as cases of a rare virus continue to increase, with thousands more ...

Aside from the pending investigation, there has only been one case of Powassan virus on the island in the past 20 years.

Vaccine skepticism in the U.S. jeopardizes efforts to eradicate measles globally and will likely result in more kids dying ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly ...

A stunning sprint in scientific discovery from the 1920s onward basically eradicated communicable diseases such as polio, rubella and measles. Other public health measures have helped Americans live ...

A rise in cases of the Chikungunya virus have been reported in Guangdong, China, with 3,000 cases being reported in one week ...