HOUSTON, TEXAS — Harris County officials outlined a plan to boost vaccination rates for measles and trace any potential cases in Houston — as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the federal government plans to combat…

DALLAS — The measles outbreak in Texas has reached nearly 150 cases, according to a Friday morning update from the state health department. Health officials said 146 cases have been identified since late January, up…

Newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to dismiss a rare measles outbreak that has killed a child in Texas and sickened more than 120 people. “It is not unusual,…

BROWNFIELD, Texas (AP) — The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 124 cases across nine counties, the state health department said Tuesday, and 18 people are hospitalized. The outbreak is largely spreading…

NEW YORK (AP) — Trader Joe’s and other grocers are limiting the number of eggs customers can buy across the U.S., citing limited supply caused by the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Trader Joe’s is capping…

The falling temperatures also signal the thick fog of flu season. But in rural areas of Kansas, people are less likely to get vaccinated for the flu. This year, that has health care professionals worried,…

About 50 people have been reported infected in an E. coli outbreak involving McDonald’s Quarter Pounder sandwiches. The outbreak began around Sept. 27. In addition to Nebraska and Colorado, infections have been confirmed in Oregon,…

TOPEKA — As the Kansas and Missouri medical communities prepare for respiratory illness season, health officials grapple with an early COVID-19 infection spike and higher-than-normal tuberculosis infections in Wyandotte County. COVID positivity rates have been…

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County, with more cases than the entire state recorded last year. In response to questions from the Kansas News Service…

Everyday consumers and the dairy industry have not seen broad changes to the milk on store shelves or the broader markets four months after the first cattle tested positive for bird flu. While individual farmers…