Public Health

The CDC’s latest measles data, updated March 21, shows a rise in confirmed cases across multiple states.  Here are five things to know: 

The measles outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma may continue for up to a year, Katherine Wells, DrPH, director of Lubbock Public Health in Texas, said in a press briefing March 18.  During the briefing, she said the outbreak’s…

The CDC issued a health alert March 18 regarding dengue outbreaks in the Caribbean and the Americas.  Dengue activity is high in parts of the U.S., and with the spring and summer travel seasons approaching, the risk of travel-associated and…

The number of people living with Parkinson's disease will more than double by 2050, according to a study based on data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. 

At least 320 measles cases have been reported in the U.S. so far this year, surpassing the total from all of 2024, according to the latest data from state health departments compiled by NBC News. 

The FDA made recommendations to vaccine manufacturers for the virus strains to be used in the next batch of flu vaccines, according to a March 13 news release from the agency. 

As federal agencies struggle to rehire fired employees who were working on the U.S. bird flu outbreak, experts in infectious diseases and public health are increasingly voicing their concerns about the outbreak's spread. 

Americans' self-reported physical and mental health ratings have reached their lowest levels in more than two decades, according to a March 13 Gallup report.

A third state is now part of the growing measles outbreak in the U.S., as Oklahoma officials report two probable cases linked to the ongoing outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, NBC News reported March 11. 

The number of measles cases in Texas and New Mexico has surpassed 200, more than doubling over the past two weeks, according to state health officials, The Wall Street Journal reported March 7.