The Wake County Public Health Department is investigating 241 complaints of people feeling ill after eating at a Raleigh, North Carolina, sushi restaurant, including a groom who filed a lawsuit claiming he got sick before his wedding.

News and updates on the deadly shootings in Lewiston, Maine.

Over 1,000 people have been killed after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night. The epicenter was a short distance from Marrakech. Follow here for live updates.

It was not immediately clear what caused the derailment, but Pakistan’s aging train network has long lacked funding.

A total of 88 people were taken to the hospital, mostly for heat exhaustion, Wednesday evening, during the opening ceremony for the 2023 Saemangeum World Scout Jamboree, which is being held in the middle of an unrelenting heat wave.

The World Health Organization warned on Friday that cases of dengue fever could reach close to record highs this year, partly due to global warming benefiting mosquitoes that spread it.

The screening applies to any passenger who was in Uganda, including U.S. citizens. It involves a temperature and symptom check conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC made many communications mistakes during Covid, from confusing guidance to delayed recommendations. CDC staffers say they've been frustrated and concerned.

What would you do if you needed care and your hospital flooded? Doctors urge for planning ahead of time as extreme weather events increase.

Data breach impacts 318,558 Patients in Westchester and New York City NEW ROCHELLE, NY (September 22, 2022) — The HIVE ransomware group has taken credit for a data breach of Empress EMS based in the City of Yonkers, NY and owned by PatientCare EMS Solutions, based in Tyler, TX. PatientCare EMS Solutions is portfolio company … Continue reading Westchester EMS Provider Hacked in One of the Largest U.S. Healthcare Ransomware Attacks of 2022

Debate over pathogen research has grown more rancorous amid speculation that some kind of “lab leak” might have played a role in the origin of the coronavirus.

Several children’s hospitals, most notably Boston Children’s, have been the target of a far-right harassment campaign for months.

The FBI says it has made an arrest in connection with a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital. The agency announced the arrest on Twitter and said it will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. with U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins and Boston police at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. No further details were immediately released. Twice in…

Six people were reported dead and 23 injured after tornadoes and severe thunderstorms tore through Tennessee on Saturday. A child was among three people killed in Montgomery County — about an hour …

India’s southern Kerala state issues alerts after two people died from the disease in the fourth outbreak since 2018.

This article will make the case that global pandemics should not be in the planning, organization, equipping, training, and exercising responsibilities solely for emergency management entities – they need to be managed through a whole-of-government/whole-community approach using other management techniques. By Michael Prasad

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than 90 percent of the children infected in last year’s measles outbreak in Ohio were unvaccinated.  The report published Friday looked at the 85 total confirmed cases, all among children located in central Ohio, and found 94 percent of them did not…

Nearly half the student population of a Virginia high school was out of school Friday suffering flu-like or gastrointestinal symptoms, with an investigation into the source of the mystery outbreak underway, officials said.

A timeline of the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks that struck fear into the entire region, from the first shootings to the arrest of the snipers.

Three of four hospitals in the Lee Health system in southwest Florida have been forced to evacuate patients because of a lack of running water.

A three-vehicle collision on a central Florida highway in Osceola County Wednesday morning resulted in one death and 16 injuries, authorities said.

The deaths of 27 people while they were being transported to a quarantine facility unleashed a wave of anger over the country's strict coronavirus controls.

The state's capital has been dealing with the crisis since late August, when Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after there was no running water in the city.