A multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs has sickened at least 79 people across seven states, according to a warning issued Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They’re called the world’s deadliest animal by the CDC.

A person attended a Shakira concert at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey while infectious with measles.

New analysis shows the number of measles cases reported in the U.S. this year just surpassed 1,000.

Three new health reports detail growing concern about an animal sedative that’s showing up in the nation's illegal drug supply.

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants President Donald Trump to consider another Floridian to serve as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director.

It's a common virus that can cause cancers later in life.

Bird flu has been detected in a Georgia commercial poultry flock for the first time since a countrywide outbreak in 2022.

U.S. health officials said a California infant has died and at least 10 other people have been sickened in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that include chicken feet, duck neck and pork hock, feet and tongue.

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data.

Authorities in Congo say the first batch of mpox vaccine has arrived in Congo’s capital, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency.

It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a dip in routine childhood vaccinations, but a new report from the CDC shows a troubling trend for the vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus (HPV).

Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week.

Climate change isn’t just become a breeding ground for more mosquitos, but ones with a more potent viral bite.

There have been 17 times as many U.S. measles cases in the first three months of this year compared with the average number seen in the first three months of the previous three years.

Respiratory illnesses are declining in the U.S. but the CDC warns levels are still elevated and the highest activity is in the South.

According to a study recently published by the CDC, over one million emergency room visits every year involve children and adolescents with mental health issues and the number is rising.

Flu cases are spiking in Florida and across the country as the holiday travel season gets underway.

South Florida researchers are actively seeking people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, for a clinical trial into an investigational treatment.

Our high heat and humidity is not only making life outdoors these days unpleasant for many, it can also be dangerous for South Florida seniors.

The U.S. has approved the first vaccine for RSV, shots to protect older adults.

Broward County officials asked residents with “breathing difficulties” to “remain indoors” in areas where a mosquito control program team was aerial spraying an insecticide on Monday morning.

New data details the nation’s worsening tide of sexually transmitted infections, but health officials are hoping an old drug will help the fight.

For every American killed by gunfire, an estimated two or more more survive, often with terrible injuries.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it.

A South Florida grandmother is adjusting to life after a bacterial infection took her right eye.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned the agency is monitoring the spread of antibiotic-resistant threats including one that men who have sex with men are at high risk for.

A recent study suggests that drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction may also lower cardiovascular risk in healthy men.

Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners are down again, and federal officials are launching a new campaign to try to bring them up.

As COVID-19 surges in China, the U.S. is expanding its traveler surveillance program, an early warning system for detecting new variants.

Flu is decreasing in many parts of the country after an alarmingly early and strong start to the season.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Uganda next week will host a ministerial meeting on the outbreak of the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus which has no proven vaccine and has caused alarm in the East Africa region.

A federally funded study has found a possible link between aluminum in some childhood vaccines and persistent asthma, but experts say the study has several shortcomings.

The NFL essentially is back to normal entering its third season amid COVID-19.

The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis.

Florida is once again seeing a rise in cases of COVID-19.

According to the CDC, one out of six deaths from cardiovascular disease is due to stroke, and it’s striking younger patients with no known risk factors.

According to the CDC, every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke and minutes matter when it comes to the chances of survival and quality of recovery.

The CDC estimates that roughly one in five people in the U.S. has a sexually transmitted infection and many may not even know it.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, her spokesman says.

After the last couple years of living through a global pandemic, it seems as though most of us are itching to get in some good travel time.

According to the CDC, about one million children and 1.4 million adults in the US are living with a congenital heart defect.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday that she is quarantining after testing positive for COVID-19.

The state may be pulling further away from the peak of the omicron variant surge with number of confirmed cases on the decline.

Florida reported 38,614 new COVID-19 cases to the CDC from Thursday, and the state is poised to report its first week-to-week decrease in new infections since November when the health department’s report comes out later Friday.

Florida reported 112,115 new COVID-19 cases from the past three days coming out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, data that indicates infections are starting to slow.

Starting Saturday the CDC's guidance for preventing COVID-19 on cruise ships will become optional as the agency’s Conditional Sailing Order is set to expire.

Florida added 55,573 new COVID-19 cases and reported an increase of 262 deaths tied to the virus in the latest CDC data.

Florida reported 71,742 new COVID-19 cases from Tuesday, a significant jump after two straight days when the increase was fewer than 50,000.

Florida reported 47,709 new COVID-19 cases from Monday, according to the latest CDC data. It follows 49,548 new infections from Sunday, representing a decrease after the state averaged over 64,000 new cases per day over the past week.

Florida verified 126,704 new COVID-19 infections from Saturday and Sunday, according to the latest data posted Monday by the CDC.

Data shows Florida's seven-day case average is the highest it has ever been.

The CDC’s latest data shows Florida broke a daily case record with new infections while hospitalizations are also on the rise.

The CDC’s latest data shows Florida reported 67,369 new COVID-19 cases from Wednesday, the second-highest daily total in the state since the start of the pandemic.

Florida reported 59,487 new COVID-19 infections from Tuesday, according to the latest CDC data posted Wednesday afternoon.

Florida reported 85,635 new COVID-19 cases from Saturday and Sunday, according to the latest metrics posted Monday by the CDC.

After days of record-breaking COVID-19 cases in the Sunshine State, Florida reported 56,865 new cases on Saturday and the positivity rates in South Florida continue to soar.

People continued to crowd testing sites across South Florida, creating long lines.

The NFL is reducing isolation time for players who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, including unvaccinated players, to five days from 10.

With the omicron variant rapidly spreading and lines of people swarming testing sites before Christmas, Florida almost set a new record with 26,811 new COVID-19 infections in a day.

Florida reported 20,194 new infections to the CDC from Tuesday, according to federal data posted Wednesday afternoon.

As the contagious omicron variant takes over as the dominant strain, Florida reported 12,915 new COVID-19 cases to the CDC from Monday, the state’s biggest single-day increase since Sept. 11.

Florida reports that 18,404 new COVID infections were uncovered Saturday and Sunday, continuing the upward trend driven by the contagious omicron variant.

Florida's 8,709 new COVID cases in the CDC’s data Saturday — attributed to Friday — come after 8,785 cases were added in the state the day prior.

Florida’s coronavirus infections are beginning to sharply increase after a long stretch when the state averaged fewer than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases per day.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is making face coverings optional even for unvaccinated and partially vaccinated students whose parents sign opt-out paperwork.

TSA screened 2,200,000 people at checkpoints on Friday alone, the highest single-day total since early 2020.

As the CDC and the FDA give approval for adults to receive COVID-19 boosters, a South Florida hospitals begins to offer the vaccine for children.

According to the CDC, more than 34-million Americans have diabetes which prompted the United States Preventive Services Task Force to update screening recommendations for Type-2 diabetes, and lower the age from 40 to 35 for those who are obese or overweight.

According to a release by the CDC on Wednesday, whole fresh red, white and yellow onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico and distributed by ProSource Inc. may be contaminated with salmonella.

Florida has reported an additional 431 COVID-19 deaths since Friday, the newest data from the CDC shows Monday.

Over the past week, Florida has averaged 2,999 new COVID-19 infections per day. It’s the fewest since the first seven days of July, according to CDC data, and illustrates how far the state has come since the delta variant-fueled summer surge.

Florida’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 57,300 in the latest CDC data posted Tuesday, an increase of 887 from the day before.

Florida has gone six straight days with fewer than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases after 3,974 new cases and three deaths were added in the latest CDC data Friday.

Another 3,549 COVID-19 infections and 782 more deaths tied to the coronavirus were reported in Florida in the latest data from the CDC posted Thursday.

Florida has verified 3,594,182 coronavirus cases and 55,625 deaths tied to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that COVID-19 vaccines prevented about 17,000 infections and 2,400 deaths among seniors in Florida during the first five months of 2021.

The latest CDC data on Monday shows Florida at 3,586,802 cases and 55,619 deaths tied to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

Florida has gone seven straight days with COVID-19 case increases of less than 10,000. That last happened in mid-July.

The latest data posted Tuesday by the CDC shows Florida is up to 3,560,152 total COVID-19 cases and 54,067 since the start of the outbreak.

The CDC, which posts metrics sent by the Florida Department of Health, says that the state is averaging 6,768 new cases per day over the past week, the lowest since mid-July when the delta variant began driving the summer spike.

“Yeah, these people are going to be protected and the booster is going to likely help them, but the pandemic is still going to happen,” says Dr. Aarti Raja, associate professor of biological sciences at Nova Southeastern University.

Florida reported 7,753 new COVID-19 cases and an additional 11 deaths tied to the virus in the latest CDC data posted Friday.

The new metrics show that 53,105 COVID patients have died in Florida since the start of the outbreak, a total that sat at 51,892 a day earlier.

Florida reported over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in the latest data posted Wednesday, snapping a four-day streak with increases below that threshold.

The latest data from the CDC shows that Florida reported 6,904 new COVID-19 cases from Monday and assigned 6,297 new cases to Sunday.

The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the country.

Florida has verified 3,503,976 COVID-19 cases and 51,884 fatalities connected to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. according to the CDC’s latest metrics posted Monday.

The Florida Department of Health’s full weekly report on COVID-19 also came out Friday and shows a nearly 25% decrease in new cases compared to last week.

Florida has now reported 3,464,113 cases and 49,257 fatalities connected to COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak, the latest CDC data shows.

Florida has now reported 3,453,390 cases and 49,254 fatalities connected to COVID-19 since the start of the outbreak, the latest CDC metrics show.

The latest CDC data on Monday shows that Florida reported 33,078 new COVID-19 cases and saw its pandemic death toll increase by 975 since Friday.

The latest COVID-19 data from the CDC on Thursday shows an increase of 1,296 deaths from the total reported a day earlier.

Florida's COVID-19 cases have leveled off from the height of the recent summer spike. Fewer than 20,000 new cases were reported for 10 of the past 11 days, according to CDC data.

The 10,162 new COVID-19 cases reported in Florida on Monday represent the state’s smallest daily increase since July 19.

More than 6,600 people died with COVID-19 in Florida in August, an average of more than 213 people per day, and there may still be more August fatalities to be added.

The 7-day moving average for new cases in Florida sits at 18,436, the lowest in a month, an indication that the state is coming down from the peak of the summer surge propelled by the delta variant.

Florida has again set a new record for COVID-19 cases reported in a single day, with the CDC saying Friday that the state added 27,584 to its tally.

Anyone entering a Miami-Dade County government building once again needs to wear a face mask in response to the latest COVID-19 surge throughout Florida.

Republicans are responding with hostility to new masking guidance from public health officials.