Mpox, previously called monkeypox, is a rare disease. Part of the same family as the virus that causes smallpox, it is caused by a type of virus typically found in West and Central Africa. It is ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has reported that flu-related deaths in North Carolina have ...

The North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health director stated that federal funding cuts are endangering the state's ...

The scene is a result of $230 million in federal funding cuts that the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is asking people and providers to be on alert for mpox cases following ...

North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai visited Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, one of three psychiatric ...

The NCDHHS highlights the essential role of environmental health in protecting North Carolinians on Earth Day.

The detections were found in wastewater samples collected on March 25, March 28 and April 8 from a treatment plant in Greenville.

Residents and health officials are concerned with the detection, especially as the program that found the virus early is at ...

"The mpox virus is primarily spread by prolonged close contact, typically skin-to-skin, often during sexual activity.