Centers for Disease Control data shows 1,600 fewer people died of overdoses in New York from August of 2023 to August of 2024 ...

A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New ...

Does it feel like everyone around you is sick right now? Your Local Epidemiologist New York has a winter virus report as we ...

Health experts are cheering a move by outgoing President Joe Biden. But, this is terrible news if you're a smoker living in ...

Seventeen states around the U.S. reported "very high" wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—during ...

Officials believe flu trends this year look to be similar to the 2019 to 2020 season, which also hit peak levels around the ...

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin had the highest rates, with 9.2 percent of tests coming back positive.

It looks like the start of the New Year is a rough one here in Western New York. According to the latest data from the CDC, ...