Texas health officials are sounding the alarm on a surge of a common childhood illness. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DHSH) revealed this week that there are nearly four times the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Cases of hand, foot and mouth disease are up this year compared to last year in the Commonwealth, according to the Virginia Department of Health. VDH reported that ...

Florida wildlife officials have confirmed the state's second case of a deadly and highly contagious infection known as "zombie deer disease" in a wild deer. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Doctors at Ochsner are seeing more cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease extending later into the summer months and even into the start of fall, when the illness is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new government data posted last week. The Centers for ...

Georgia reports over twice as many hand, foot, and mouth disease cases this year compared to last year. The disease spreads easily among children under 5 through saliva, droplets, surfaces, and fecal ...

FILE - This 1971 microscope photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes the sexually-transmitted disease gonorrhea. (CDC via AP, ...