The Connecticut Department of Public Health today said it has confirmed a case of measles in a Fairfield County child who is ...

Louisiana has a new face of public health, but unfortunately, it looks like more of the same. Gov. Jeff Landry appointed Dr.

Governor Jeff Landry has appointed Evelyn Griffin, MD, as Louisiana’s next surgeon general, NBC and CBS affiliate KALB reported Dec. 8. The appointment comes after the state’s former surgeon general, ...

Louisiana’s next surgeon general is a Baton Rouge physician who U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose for a panel ...

Childhood infections have fallen by 99 percent since the vaccine was recommended, with hardly any major side effects.

Authorities are hunting for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall. St. Landry Parish sheriff's Maj. Mark LeBlanc ...

Instead of acting fast to prevent a measles comeback, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has undermined public health officials by eroding trust in vaccines.

A session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the CDC, which HHS ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's vociferous opposition to the nation’s tightening vaccination policies is becoming more pointed, ...

With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year. A surge in measles cases has cost Canada its official measles-free ...

Over the past five years, measles outbreaks have hit more than 100 countries. Canada lost its official measles elimination status on Nov. 10, 2025. The United States could be next. Eight-month-old ...

Louisiana has confirmed its third measles case of 2025 in an adult resident of Region 9. The latest case is linked to international travel and a public exposure at the New Orleans airport. All three ...