BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Doctors in Louisiana say more and more teenagers and pre-teens are getting diagnosed with ...

The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed Louisiana’s first human case of West Nile virus this year in an individual from Livingston Parish. The person was hospitalized due to complications from ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention July 7 announced ( it is streamlining H5N1 bird flu updates with its routine ...

According to the Louisiana Department of Health, there were 57 cases in humans statewide in 2024. Three people died.

RFK Jr. turned the CDC's vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against ...

Gov. Jeff Landry and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a Louisiana bill tied to a national health initiative known as Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted on Thursday to recommend infants receive a newer monoclonal antibody shot for ...