infectious diseases

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing whatever he can to undermine public health. Last week, he ordered his department to...

Avian influenza — which has devastated poultry flocks, wildlife populations and increasingly poses a public health risk — has now been confirmed in wi...

As avian flu spreads across the country and drives up the cost of eggs, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants the Trump administration to take action to ...

OLEAN — While New York is one of nine states across the country with current measles outbreaks, there are no known cases in Cattaraugus County. A quar...

WELLSVILLE — No chickens came home to roost Monday night after the village board called yet another hearing concerning the keeping of chickens within ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery stores. The escalating threat of avian flu ha...

NEW YORK — Live poultry markets in New York City raced to sell off all their chickens and other fowl Friday after seven cases of avian flu were detect...

GENEVA — Avian flu, which has struck the U.S. egg industry and caused prices in the supermarket to spike, is showing up in wild birds as well. Emily D...

ALBANY (TNS) —Democratsin the state Legislature are renewing a push to mandate that all eggs sold inNew Yorkare from free-range producers who do not k...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Sen.Chuck Schumer is ringing the alarm on grocery prices potentially rising again should the federal government decide to "stop helpi...

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn't have a name, nor did the i...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preempti...

Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data. The most recent numbers from the ...

WELLSVILLE — Ardent Solutions, in partnership with the Allegany County Department of Health, is hosting a series of vaccination clinics in November as...

New York state announced a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a captive deer facility in the North Country. The state is now implement...

New York state announced a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a captive deer facility in the North Country. The state is now implement...

ALBANY (TNS) — News this week that an Ulster Country resident died of Eastern equine encephalitis — the first case in the state since 2015 — triggered...

ALBANY — An Ulster County resident has died of Eastern equine encephalitis, the first death in New York state of the mosquito-borne disease since 2015...