An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

The Laredo Public Health Department issued a health advisory after detecting elevated levels of influenza B and COVID-19 viral particles in the city’s wastewater. The results serve as an early warning ...

A little more than three months later, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a “Public Health Emergency ...

Texas still maintains the highest number of cases, mostly in young unvaccinated children, but cases are creeping closer to Ohio.

Currently, about 14.1 million Americans are experiencing long COVID symptoms, with nearly a quarter reporting significant activity limitations. Recent data also indicates that around 1.01 million ...

Boston.com readers said the pandemic remains an ever-present threat to public health, despite much of society having moved on.

Ensitrelvir PEP was safe and effective for COVID-19 prevention among household contacts when administered after the onset of symptoms in an index patient.

At a time when the world seems eager to declare the COVID-19 pandemic a closed chapter, I — along with millions of other Americans — continue to confront a relentless, invisible enemy that has ...

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Five years ago, high schools and universities across the country went on spring break a few weeks early. Then, spring break ...

In the weeks that followed, North Texas communities issued stay-at-home orders. Hospitals reached capacity as more than 6 million Texans tested positive for the virus. In the end, 92,000 died. Now, ...

It’s like a storm that takes over your body,” Marta Cerda said of her struggles with long COVID. “It’s just a nightmare for me and I’m trying to maintain hope that there will be these treatments and ...