The Southeast Health District recently recognized Georgia Preteen Vaccination Week, joining public health officials statewide ...

Measles is not often seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas. So far, one unvaccinated child died ...

After months of rapid respiratory disease spread and sickness, Georgia and Atlanta cases of Covid-19, flu, or RSV appear to ...

A government shutdown happens when the House of Representatives and Senate can’t pass bills to fund the daily operations, but what does that mean for Americans?

When senators on Friday vote on a piece of legislation to keep the government open, they will also decide whether to give the Trump administration the authority to withhold funds from the ...

Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus. What is it? What are the symptoms? Are there any cases of Georgia?

Health officials now say that the measles cases in Texas and New Mexico are connected, with the outbreak spreading to a third ...

Many of Georgia’s most deadly respiratory diseases have declined over the past few weeks, but others like whooping cough appear to still be broadly circulating.

The COVID-19 pandemic started five years ago this week, and frontline workers in Houston County say it changed their entire ...

Since a second viral surge in February, Georgia's hospitalizations for the flu, Covid-19, or respiratory syncytial virus have ...

It was January when the email came. After a roughly six-month-long hiring process that included fingerprinting and other ...

ORIGINAL STORY: CDC to lose nearly 1,300 probationary employees under Trump's job cuts ...