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Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Health care centers and medical facilities remain closed as the .At least 24 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted......

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Marko Geber/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Meta -- the company that operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp --announced on Tuesday it was ending third-party fact-checking.Some social media policy experts and public health experts are worried that......

Human Bird Flu Cases in the U.S. as of January 6, 2025. Image by ABC News. Data via CDC.(NEW YORK) -- In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu was......

Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images(LOUISIANA) -- The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday.The patient, who was exposed to non-commercial backyard flock......

Roger Harris/Getty Images(CHINA) -- Chinese health officials are reportedly monitoring an increase in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV).There is currently no evidence that the outbreak is out of the ordinary or that a new respiratory......

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Surgeon General issued an on Friday warning of a link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk.Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United......

Al Drago/CQ Roll Call(NEW YORK) -- Federal health officials have begun collecting samples of aged raw cow's milk cheese across the U.S. to test for bird flu, the Food and Drug Administration .Sample......

Sdi Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Respiratory illness activity – a measure of how often conditions like the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus are diagnosed – is currently "high" in the United States,......

CDC NoroSTAT(NEW YORK) -- Cases of norovirus appear to be on the rise in various parts of the U.S., according to .More than 90 norovirus outbreaks were reported during the week of Dec.......