Ten authors, including Anissa Gray, John M. Williams and Barbara Tucker, are in the running for Georgia's prestigious Townsend Prize in 2025.

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Billions of cicadas from Brood XIV are ready to emerge once the warm weather hits, and they're going to be very loud after 17 ...

A bill to certify community health workers in Georgia failed to pass after the state Senate abruptly adjourned much earlier ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

Everybody wants to blame their allergies on all that yellow dust, but doctors say that pollen isn’t the culprit.

The family of a 74-year-old man who died during a trip to Hawaii say they found the skeletal remains of a human being on his Georgia property a few days after his death, police in Decatur have ...

Georgians, and all of the deep south, laugh at the measurement used for extreme pollen. Tree pollen is considered extremely high when it exceeds 1,500 grains per cubic meter of air. Saturday's number, ...

Even as one of the most severe Georgia flu seasons in recent years continues to recede, health workers in the metro Atlanta area continue to express caution about respiratory, vaccine-preventable ...

Bird flu has caused the death of millions of birds in South Dakota, the state with the second-highest number of outbreaks in the US. While no human cases have been reported in South Dakota ...

However, current evidence suggests that the avian influenza viruses we're seeing circulating around the world do not spread easily to people – and the risk of avian flu to the general public ...