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

The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for ...

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

The measles outbreak has hit a new high, with over 1,200 cases reported in 2025 so far. The last time infections were that ...

A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, and the year is only half over. The national case count reached 1,288 on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

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

Only one ACIP member dissented, arguing that the risk of flu outweighs any risk from the mercury-based preservative thimerosol.

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 ...

The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of ...

Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...