Respiratory viruses are at high levels and rising in VA, the latest health data shows. The state has seen 2 pediatric flu deaths this week.

The number of emergency department visits is continuing to grow. Most areas in Southwest Virginia are seeing an increase in all three viruses; however, more people need treatment for RSV. RSV affects children more than anyone, but the number of adults getting it this winter is growing.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.

According to an announcement from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the entire operation in Accomack County had been quarantined with a 10-kilometer perimeter. The positive flock was depopulated Thursday, the department said, and birds in the flock will not enter the food system.

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month and the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts (RHHD) is encouraging community members to take action against cervical cancer.

Health care professionals have confirmed whooping cough outbreaks in West Virginia and Ohio.Four cases have been reported at Hurricane High School and additiona

By Taylor Sisk for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for West Virginia News Service reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases,

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.

Anti-vaccine bills pop up across the US ahead of RFK Jr’s confirmation hearing - Vaccination rates against dangerous childhood infections like measles and polio continue to fall nationwide