Alligator Alcatraz is in Florida, home to dangerous animals that can harm you, like gators, sharks, bears, panthers, snakes and spiders.

Respiratory syncytial virus is common but it can be dangerous for some infants and young kids. Here's everything parents need ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump took office, multiple government webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation ...

A new study carried out by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) confirms the critical role international health ...

After Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, Kentucky has not joined the list of US states to declare a measles outbreak, which as ...

Cases of two zoonotic diseases, rabies and Hantavirus, have been reported at the Grand Canyon. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that can spread from animals to humans. >> Download the 12News app for the ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

As a new COVID-19 variant takes over in the U.S., guidance surrounding vaccines has become increasingly confusing. Changes in vaccination guidelines, ever-evolving variants and strains, along with ...

CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...

Chronic disease prevention The latest budget request would eliminate the CDC's Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, for which $1.4 billion was appropriated in FY 2024.

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.