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The Arkansas Department of Health is warning the public about rising cases in whooping cough across the state, a bacterial ...

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The recent cholera outbreak in Gache Gache Fishing Camp, located in Kariba District, has thrust the community into a state of ...

There are many reasons to strenuously oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. But this one ...

pneumoniae), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections are generally mild, and people may seem better than expected for those with a lung infection, hence the term ...

Protect yourself from respiratory viruses, foodborne illnesses and accidents, and find support for mental and behavioral ...