The surge in the extremely contagious bacterial illness in Portland is linked to the number of people experiencing ...

Health officials in Oregon are reportedly battling dozens of cases of dysentery amid a years-long rise in the highly ...

I walk past the Vern, and the alleyway door is conspicuously covered in human feces. Dysentery is on the rise, not because people don't wash their ass so much as because they are prevented from doing ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warn that dysentery can spread rapidly through various means, including ...

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Citing research that the more common average body temperature of today is actually 97.9, she mused: "Should we adjust our ...

Yes! Yes, it is. The Oregon Trail game was called Oregon Trail because it was based on the Oregon Trail! And yes, people died ...

Measles has surged back into the U.S. public health spotlight, spreading to nine states after being declared eliminated as an endemic disease in 2000. The current outbreak, which began in Texas, has ...

The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.

Waste management is an issue that affects not just the environment but also human health in ways that often go unnoticed.

Still, the reminders of what life and death was like before vaccines are not hard to find. You need only visit a local museum ...

Presented by The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare — Senators on Wednesday pressed Trump’s pick to head the ...