Rats can spread infectious diseases and are among the city's most elusive public health threats.

Some members of the Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board say the move could expand efforts to prevent overdoses.

Essential but overlooked, community health workers helped roll out the Covid-19 vaccine in Baltimore. In New York, they’re embedded on primary care teams throughout the city.

The virus is primarily transmitted to humans when mosquitoes feed on infected birds and then bite people.

Once widely distributed for free by the federal government, Covid-19 vaccines are now sold commercially. And a CDC program that covered the cost for the uninsured is ending.

Although public health officials recommend the newly approved Covid vaccine for everyone 6 months and older, it may make more sense to wait until closer to the holiday season.

Four people - living in Manhattan and Queens - were diagnosed, and two possible cases are being investigated in the Bronx.

“We have learned many lessons from the 2022 outbreak, and we are prepared,” Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said.

Preliminary CDC data from 2023 suggest Latino New Yorkers outpaced other racial and ethnic groups in HIV diagnoses for the first time in a decade.

Here are the latest recommendations on what to do to get better and keep from spreading the illness.