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

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...

LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” including “gen...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Congress blew its chance Monday to give Americans some insight into the COVID pandemic that dominated our lives for years. Following ...

Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...

LONDON — For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out poli...

ALBANY (AP) — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio,...

ALBANY — The polio virus was detected in wastewater samples from the suburban county near New York City where an unvaccinated adult recently contracte...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York health officials confirmed Thursday that a case of polio was recently recorded in Rockland County, the first time the highly i...

The ways we think about the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved with the virus: In 2020, it was a potentially deadly threat we could avoid by being careful...

Fewer than half of eligible Americans have received a third COVID vaccine shot despite clear evidence of its benefit. That booster shot improves your ...

SALAMANCA — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said Monday that spraying for the invasive spongy moth — formerly known as gyp...

Much has changed since President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Immunity, whether natural or acquired through...

Gov. Kathy Hochul made the right decision in letting the state’s temporary indoor mask mandate expire last Thursday. The Covid-19 omicron wave is rece...

What does it mean if a person’s rapid antigen test result comes back positive after five days of isolation due to COVID-19? According to the experts, ...

Dear Doctors: Can you please talk about the omicron variant? I keep hearing different information about whether or not it’s worse than the delta varia...

The fullness of time, and now the omicron wave, have made it obvious how preposterous the chief lines of criticism against Donald Trump were during th...

The Olean Times Herald printed an excellent article on the risks to pets during the holidays. Be cautious as you pack up and discard decorations, tins...