Leaders from the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) encourage residents to get vaccinated as measles and whooping cough cases rise. Measles in Louisiana: What to know A total of two measles ...

The patient was over age 65 and had underlying medical conditions. The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The patient ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The patient, who was exposed to non-commercial backyard ...

The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has died, according to the Louisiana Department ...

The Louisiana Department of Health did not provide details about ... Since April, at least 66 cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States, but almost all the patients had mild ...

Women in Louisiana have decent access to preventative care and still face some of the worst health outcomes in the United States ... who also leads the Louisiana Department of Health’s review ...

Louisiana Democrats say they’re limited in what they can do, but plan to fight cuts to a program that has an outsized role in ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination ... has dropped in the last year or so, like many other states in the country. “When vaccination rates drop ...

The Louisiana Department of Health ... and polio that were once eradicated in the United States. Preventing infectious diseases should be a public health priority." "Smith said the Louisiana ...

At least 27 states have reported at lease one case ... and lived in the greater New Orleans area, according to the Louisiana Health Department. Health officials are working to identify anyone ...

While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long ...