Four more people have died from the coronavirus in Massachusetts, state health officials announced Monday. The deaths bring the statewide total to nine. There are now a total of 777 coronavirus cases in Massachusetts, up 131 since Sunday. On Sunday, officials had said there were 646 cases statewide, but warned they expected those numbers to rise dramatically due to recent…

Mexico and the U.S. have announced plans to sharply limit travel over their busy shared border as they try to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo said she has no plans to institute a statewide lockdown as the number of coronavirus cases in the state continues to rise. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the state now stand at 66, up 12 from Friday. The new patients range in age from their 20s to their 70s, and three are hospitalized….

The White House is putting in place new measures to protect President Donald Trump and his staff during the coronavirus outbreak.

With Coronavirus spreading across the world, experts have asked people to stop touching their face. Here’s why. Plus, experts give you a few tips to try to curb the habit.

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A person has been diagnosed with coronavirus in Chicago, marking the second confirmed case in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. has its first case of a new virus that was found only last month in China. A U.S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus. The man returned to the Seattle area in the middle of last week after traveling to the Wuhan area, where the outbreak...

Vermont is reporting a statewide outbreak of hepatitis A, joining 30 other states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that have seen a marked increase in the number of cases, the Vermont Health Department said Thursday. The outbreak was in its early stages, and health officials had been anticipating it based on what’s happened in other states, said Health Commissioner Dr….

Three cases of whooping cough have been reported at a high school in Maine, News Center Maine reports. The outbreak has been confirmed at Freeport High School in Freeport. The three cases of pertussis were reported over the past two weeks. Pertussis, which is commonly known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection. Patients with the infection…

At least 27 new cases of illnesses linked to the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak have been reported.

The number of confirmed measles cases near Portland grew to 31 on Friday — an outbreak boosted by lower-than-normal vaccination rates in what has been called an anti-vaccination U.S. “hot spot.” Public health officials in southwest Washington, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, said people may have been exposed to the dangerous disease at more than three dozen...

The Vermont Health Department says it’s working with a retirement community in Shelburne to battle an illness outbreak. Officials said Tuesday that 22 cases of Shigellosis have been confirmed among Wake Robin residents, staff, and visitors and 44 probable cases have been reported.

Parents continue to opt their school-aged children out of vaccination schedules as fears over vaccinations linger in the public sphere. Experts at Texas Children’s Hospital say fears over vaccines causing autism – a theory disproven by the scientific community – may spark a comeback in illnesses like measles and other deadly infectious diseases in children.

A North Reading, Massachusetts restaurant is closed indefinitely following several complaints and a salmonella outbreak investigation conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

New Hampshire state officials say they’ve confirmed an outbreak of whooping cough at a school in Exeter.

An outbreak of measles in Minnesota has led to 44 infected people, nearly all of them children, the Minnesota department of health says. Eleven kids are in the hospital and more cases of measles are expected, NBC News reported. Doubts about vaccines helped fuel Minnesota’s biggest outbreak of measles in decades and attracted determined vaccine skeptics eager to exploit fear,...