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Five years after becoming Nevada’s first diagnosed COVID-19 patient, Ronald Pipkins reflects on the lasting division the pandemic carved into America’s social fabric — a fracture that still echoes today as public trust in vaccines, science and government intervention remains perilously low.

Vaccines are one of, if not the, most important developments in public health history, and despite nearly a century of data, some people still doubt their safety and efficacy. Infectious disease experts, however, do not—and if you're 50 years old or older, you're going to want to get certain specific jabs to keep yourself safe from some awful (and awfully contagious) illnesses.

With 146 confirmed cases of measles in the current Texas outbreak, and the first U.S. death from the disease in a decade, you may be wondering whether you actually did get all your childhood vaccinations. These include the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, designed to protect you from the notoriously contagious measles.

With 146 confirmed cases of measles in the current Texas outbreak, and the first U.S. death from the disease in a decade, you may be wondering whether you actually did get all your childhood vaccinations. These include the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, designed to protect you from the notoriously contagious measles.

Just like the gadgets we use every day are designed with a limited lifespan in mind, the immune system also experiences a type of "planned obsolescence" as we age.

Doctors are warning about the potential health risks tied to eating sushi, coming on the heels of a parasitic brain infection diagnosed in a tourist in Hawaii. If not flash-frozen properly, raw fish can be a source of bacteria and parasites that cause food poisoning-like effects – severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

FOX5 speaks to a ºÚÁÏÍø professor on how the bird flu transmits to a human.

An H5N1 outbreak is killing flocks of wild birds in Massachusetts and sickening dairy cows in 16 states while a new strain of H5N9 bird flu has emerged in California. As bird flu continues to spread among animals, experts are on high alert for signs the virus has found the genetic key it needs to unlock a widespread problem for humans.