The district says it currently has nearly 800 students and more than 60 staff members with reported illnesses.

State wastewater sites in the metro Atlanta area and eastern Georgia show rising levels of flu and Covid virus over the past two weeks, as does the percentage of emergency department visits for the illnesses.

Georgia has reported cases of bird flu in three flocks. Here's a closer look at the virus, where it is, and how dangerous it is.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a tense exchange during his confirmation hearing Wednesday to examine the RFK Jr.'s qualifications to be the country's top health official.

According to the Department of Public Health, this is Georgia's first reported measles case this year. In 2024, there were six reported cases in the Peach State.

Most data indicate that the state's respiratory virus spread, including influenza cases, is slowing from earlier this winter. Hospitalizations dropped in the second week of January, as did the percentage of health care visits for flu-like illnesses.

With Trump’s federal freeze pausing health updates from agencies like CDC, and FDA, Georgia residents will have to look elsewhere for important information.

Georgia is the nation's largest poultry producing state. Last week, bird flu was found for the first time in a commercial poultry plant in the state.

The map of flu activity across the United States continues to darken, both figuratively and literally, as case numbers spike upward in most states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Georgia poultry industry is facing a threat known as bird flu, after the Georgia Department of Agriculture confirmed a positive case at a commercial poultry operation.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a deer. The fatal neurological illness, often called “zombie deer disease,” was detected in a 2.

A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak centered in Wyandotte County.