The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...

Training program participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

It is the latest federal agency trying to coax back workers soon after they were dismissed as part of Trump’s and Musk’s cost ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study vaccines and ...

HHS is one of the government's costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion, mostly going to ...

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus infection, officials in New Mexico announced Friday. Hantavirus, ...

Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the ...

Dysentery cases are on the rise in the Portland area. In January, health officials reported 40 cases of the highly contagious ...

A rise in dysentery cases, particularly shigellosis, has been reported in Portland, Oregon, affecting vulnerable populations ...

The bacterial illness’s connection to Oregon became memeified ... by poop can potentially spread the germs,” the CDC says.

Officials announced Friday that Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, died of hantavirus, a disease spread by infected rodent droppings.