Most Americans don’t work on farms these days, so it’s easy for people to dismiss the illness as something they’re unlikely ...

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.

Scientists found that the experimental vaccine was more than 70% effective at preventing Lyme disease in a trial of nearly 10,000 volunteers. Reading time 3 minutes Ticks and the many diseases they ...

Measles and polio were diseases that once turned church gymnasiums into makeshift clinics and left families forever changed, but scientific breakthroughs in vaccines put those awful illnesses into ...

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a ...

Pfizer has announced that its new Lyme disease vaccine reduced the rate of infection by more than 70 percent in a recent trial. This is a notable achievement as an estimated 476,000 Americans contract ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks while U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a press conference to announce a link between autism and ...

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