Syndromic surveillance is the collection of health data based on syndromes. A syndrome is a pattern or collection of symptoms related to an illness. Maine CDC collects this information from medical ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections caused by a wide variety of common and unusual bacteria, fungi, and viruses during the course of receiving medical care. Medical advances have ...

Last week, the Ugandan Ministry of Health confirmed the outbreak of the disease with one death and has now followed up the contacts.

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which ...

Migrant farmworkers are on the front lines of the H5N1 surge — but deportation fears complicate virus surveillance ...

To undertake integrated and holistic research and development across human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors, ...

A recent study reveals that women giving birth to twins face a higher long-term risk of heart disease compared to single ...

The last House Ag Committee passed a farm bill; it needs to get to the president's desk to protect farmers, write G.T.

Minnesota state health officials reported today that routine disease surveillance has detected additional illnesses linked to consumption of raw dairy products from the Hartmann dairy farm in ...

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that may lead to human-to ...

Wyoming already had three well-known ticks that are harmful to humans in the state: The Rocky Mountain wood tick, ...