Health officials have confirmed the first case of severe illness in the U.S. caused by bird flu.

Telemarketing calls can be disruptive, and many of you have recently reported receiving calls from individuals claiming to work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These callers aren’t trying to sell you anything—they’re asking a lot of questions. KPRC’s Amy Davis looked into the legitimacy of these calls after receiving several herself.

A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time.

Officials with the Texas Department of State Health Services announced the first locally acquired case of dengue virus in 2024.

The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats.

Health officials are confirming bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor.

Pesky problems increasing as cool temps set in the Houston area.

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year.

A Minnesota resident who came into contact with a bat in July died of rabies.

A scientific panel is calling for a public health approach to marijuana that’s a big departure from “Just Say No.” The report was released Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off,” stand-alone illness.

Pregnancy Resource Centers provide a number of services for free to expectant mothers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued new guidance on managing pain during IUD insertion, but doctors say the updated advice — while a step in the right direction — doesn’t tackle all of the sources of discomfort during the procedure.

The U.S. will pay for flu shots for farmworkers to try to prevent bird flu from getting worse.

U.S. health officials have announced a recall of some Boar's Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak.

At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters.

President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19.

Just two weeks after the West Nile virus was detected in Texas for the first time this year, it has now also been found in Sugar Land, the city announced Friday.

Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague.

With temperatures rising across the country and school out for the summer, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool.

Researchers say doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use.

U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records.

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.

Ophelia explored prescription opioid dispense rates in 2021 and how Texas compared using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data.

U.S. health officials now recommend that some people consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases.

According to Houston firefighters, at least 25 people on the flight reported feeling sick due to a cruise they were on.

Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines.

Since 2019, accidental drug deaths have been rising in Texas, with the number tripling in Travis County.

While the overall rates have decreased, women from marginalized backgrounds continue to face alarming risks during pregnancy and postpartum.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers valuable guidance on how to effectively remove mold using bleach.

At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E.

Federal health officials say three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles.

The U.S. flu season appears to be over.

U.S. poultry producers will have to reduce salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to prevent food poisoning.

U.S. health and weather officials are unveiling a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level.

With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection.

Federal health officials say that new U.S. hepatitis C infections dropped slightly in 2022.

U.S. health officials are warning of an increase in illnesses caused by a bacteria that can cause meningitis and possible death.

The U.S. saw the most tuberculosis illnesses in a decade in 2023.

The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

March 11 marks the day four years ago when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

U.S. health officials say Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

Cases of norovirus, a highly contagious stomach bug, are climbing in the Northeastern U.S. Nationwide, about 12% of most recent norovirus tests sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were positive.

U.S. health officials say consumers should not eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source.

U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases are rising in other parts of the country.

Approximately 37.3 million people, or about 11% of the U.S. population, have diabetes while an additional 96 million have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In September, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

The COVID-19 virus is ever-changing and continuously evolves over time.

Just one new case of Legionnaires’ disease has been reported in southeast Poland in an area close to the Ukraine border, an indication the spread of the disease has been curbed following chlorine disinfection of the water system.

Poland's health authorities say the death toll from Legionnaires' disease has risen to 16 with another 140 people infected in the southeast region close to the border with Ukraine.

Health officials are investigating an outbreak of E.

Poland's internal security officers are searching for the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 in a strategic city near the border with Ukraine.

Three people have died following a listeria outbreak at a family-owned burger restaurant in Tacoma, Washington.

About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever.

In a story published July 27, 2023, The Associated Press reported that the mortality rate for patients who contracted Candida auris was 30% to 60%.

Each year, hundreds of women die during pregnancy or within a year after bird, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from a pregnancy-related cause.

Americans 60 and older can get a new RSV vaccine but should discuss it with their doctor first.

Summer is peak tick and mosquito season, and the insects may pose a particularly acute threat this year, experts say. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert about the first locally acquired cases of malaria in the United States in 20 years, detected in Florida and Texas.

Dr. David Persse, Chief Medical Officer for the City of Houston, shares how the city's working to avoid a resurgence.

The number of people with highly drug-resistant bacterial infections linked to contaminated eyedrops has reached 81, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City — the first such cases reported in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

Texas was the state that had the most congenital syphilis cases in the United States with 680 cases, according to a 2021 report published in April by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Bright Sky App is said to be the first American app to offer free and discrete resources for victims of domestic violence.

Older Americans and people with weak immune systems can get an extra COVID-19 booster dose this spring.

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

The Food and Drug Administration says it found a host of problems at an Indian manufacturing plant recently linked to contaminated eyedrops.

U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of blindness linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.

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

A study finds long-term evidence that actively monitoring localized prostate cancer can be a safe alternative to immediate surgery or radiation.

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.

More than 300 passengers who set sail aboard the Ruby Princess late last month became sick after possibly contracting Norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about a rise in extensively drug-resistant cases of the bacterial infection Shigella, a major cause of inflammatory diarrhea.

Federal health advisers have narrowly backed an experimental vaccine from Pfizer that could become the first shot to protect older adults against the respiratory illness known as RSV.

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted the termination of Title 42, a controversial policy being used along the border to quickly expel migrants. Until Robert’s order, Title 42 was set to expire at midnight Dec 21.

A controversial law used along our borders in response to rising apprehensions is set to expire in less than month’s time. However, the battle to continue using Title 42 is not over.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants approves new type of COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. health officials say a food poisoning outbreak tied to deli meat and cheese has sickened 16 people in six states, including one who died.

November is American Diabetes Month

The European Commission has authorized the world’s first one-dose drug against a respiratory virus that sickens millions of babies and children globally every year.

Scientists say an invasive mosquito species was likely responsible for a large outbreak of malaria in Ethiopia earlier this year.

If mosquitoes love you, new research suggests it may be because of how you smell.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed in an effort to reduce salmonella illnesses from food contamination.

Treatment options and clinical trials available for major depressive disorders

Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon.

The new chief at the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco center has inherited a raft of problems.

A study of U.S. children with sickle cell disease found fewer than half get a needed screening for stroke, a common complication.

The fast-food chain Wendy’s says it is pulling lettuce from sandwiches in its restaurants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania after people eating them there reported falling ill.

The head of Africa’s public health agency says he’s “really pleased” that the World Health Organization is renaming the strains of the monkeypox disease to remove references to African regions to reduce concerns of stigmatization.

The head of the nation’s top public health agency is shaking up the organization with the goal of making it more nimble.

Health officials are warning people who are infected with monkeypox to stay away from household pets, since the animals could be at risk of catching the virus.

The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.

Africa’s public health agency says the continent of 1.3 billion people still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine, but “very advanced discussions” are underway with at least two partners.

The Houston Health Department announced Wednesday it is now recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a National Wastewater Surveillance System Center of Excellence.

Global health leaders say more than 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed across 71 countries where the virus isn’t historically found.