The dreaded season of illness has been hovering over local residents as the new year has progressed. Local health officials ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

Among several more outbreaks on commercial farms, one was at a layer facility in Pennsylvania that has nearly 2 million birds ...

Laura Herrera Scott, a former member of the Medical Corps in the U.S. Army Reserve, was appointed to the job by Moore in ...

Maryland Health Secretary Laura Herrera Scott is resigning at the end of February after serving during a tumultuous two years for the state department. Herrera Scott has said she inherited a broken ...

A highly contagious strain of avian influenza has reached a commercial broiler farm in Worcester County, making it the first ...

Fatal overdoses in Maryland — and Allegany County — decreased dramatically in 2024, Gov. Wes Moore said Tuesday. The 1,553 ...

Nearly five years after COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency in the United States, the number of cases detected in Maryland has topped 1.5 million, according to the latest data from the ...

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

But now researchers have found a more dangerous link to mental health, especially if the patient is unvaccinated. When you think of the effects of COVID-19 or long COVID you think of coughing and ...

Public health officials are still studying COVID. Although humans can pass it to their pets, it's not as likely to pass from pets to humans. By understanding how coronavirus spreads, you can take ...