Two top Louisiana officials who are physicians are encouraging residents to get vaccinated against measles as an outbreak ...

During 2020, approximately one in five adults in the United States reported having ever received a diagnosis of depression by ...

Three of the viruses — flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person through germ-filled ...

Republican Louisiana state Sens. Mike Fesi and Patrick McMath are sponsoring legislation prohibiting fluoridation of public ...

Louisiana officials say the state's poultry farmers remain unaffected by bird flu. The key, experts say, may be Louisiana ...

There are 70 confirmed cases of the bird flu among humans in the U.S., as of Tuesday. The CDC said the current public health ...

Days after Louisiana’s top health official ordered to an end to mass vaccination efforts and promotions in the state, ...

Louisianans reported having asthma in their lifetime, slightly higher than the national average. See where other states stand ...

The outbreak of bird flu that began in the United States in 2022 among wild birds and poultry has since spread to dairy ...

The outbreak has sickened and killed millions of animals, caused alarm among farmers, and, perhaps most notably to the public ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

“It spreads quickly. It’s a very contagious virus.” Influenza also has been soaring in Louisiana, and a CDC map shows that for the week of Feb. 1 the percentage of Louisiana children who ...