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A Middlesex County resident has contracted Zika virus in the first case of the mosquito-borne illness to pop up in New Jersey since 2020, according to state health officials.
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A sixth person has died in the Upper East Side Legionnaires outbreak, which has sickened 90 people since it was first identified in early July, according to the city health department.
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Extreme heat and wildfire smoke, flash flood warnings and the second deadly Legionnaires outbreak in two years not to mention a rise in tick-borne illnesses. If it feels like this New York summer hasοΏ½...
Dozens of additional water-cooling towers on the Upper East Side have tested positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires disease, amid the city health departments ongoing investigaοΏ½...
Opera lovers who caught a matinee of La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera House last month later received emails from the Met Opera letting them know that one of their fellow attendees had measles, th...
City health officials say a Manhattan resident recently tested positive for measles, and they're working with restaurants and other businesses the person visited to alert anyone who might have been eοΏ½...
A New Jersey resident has the states first confirmed case of the measles in 2026, and state health officials are alerting residents to look out for symptoms of the highly contagious virus, which typiοΏ½...
A growing number of people are showing up at the busy Bellevue Hospital emergency room with serious injuries from bicycle and scooter accidents and the share of accidents involving electric vehicles οΏ½...
While the weather still has New Yorkers asking whether to grab their hoodies or their puffy coats, the blooms on the trees are a clear sign that both spring and allergy season have arrived.
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New York City health officials urged ongoing vigilance against the flu Thursday, including flu shots for kids and adults.
A record 4,546 New Yorkers were hospitalized with the flu as of the last weeοΏ½...
