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A sizable minority of Americans have historically been reluctant to take new vaccines, with a gap in willingness by party affiliation since 1957.

The risk of a Zika outbreak does not worry most in the U.S. Majorities say they will not contract the virus and trust the government to handle the disease.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say they worry about getting the Ebola virus, matching or exceeding the number of U.S. adults who worried about contracting the H1N1 virus throughout its 2009 outbreak.

Three in four Americans are confident in the U.S. government's ability to handle a coronavirus outbreak -- a higher level of confidence than Gallup has recorded for previous health scares.

A Huffington Post headline on Monday about the Ebola virus, taking up the entire screen in Huffington Post's typically large, bold font, read: "The Most Severe Health Emergency Seen in Modern Times." Meanwhile, the Voice of America headlined a ...

Fewer than one in three U.S. adults say they have gotten the new COVID-19 shot this year.

Five years after COVID-19 forced shutdowns, 59% of Americans say the pandemic is over, and 58% worry about another pandemic in the future.

Although 22% of Americans report worrying about getting swine flu, only very small percentages say they have modified their behavior in terms of shopping, airline travel, use of mass transit, work, or sending children to school as a result of ...

Just 13% of U.S. adults are now worried about getting swine flu, down from a high of 25% at the end of April. Most of the latest drop is seen among women under 50, who nevertheless remain the most concerned of any age-by-gender group.

Americans' positive rating of the quality of healthcare in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest point in Gallup's trend dating back to 2001.