According to the Centers for Disease Control, there's another thing to worry about when visiting Florida: Leprosy. In a recent research letter published on the CDC website, the authors say there is ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first omicron variant in Illinois was tested at a Rush University Medical Center lab in December after sequencing COVID samples from across the city of Chicago. "Since then it has ...

Five years after the start of the Covid pandemic that killed more than one million Americans and shut down the world, health experts are really ready to say that it’s over - at least, for now. After ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As California becomes the first U.S. state to adopt an "endemic" approach to COVID-19, we take a closer look at what becoming "endemic" means and if virus levels have truly ...

While many countries lift mask mandates and coronavirus restrictions, Hong Kong and China are reeling from an Omicrons surge. Britain, the US and some parts of Europe are seeing a new spike in cases.

As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first used that term on March 11, ...