New York City health officials are reporting an eighth fatality due to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that has sickened 97 and hospitalized 92 in the South Bronx. All deceased individuals were...

Jordanian health officials say that out-of-temperature chickpea hummus is the source of a Shigella outbreak that sickened 80, according to a Al Wakeel News report (computer translated). The tainted hummus...

The number of cases of the mosquito borne viral disease, chikungunya, has doubled in recent months as the virus reaches the entire south-southeast of the country. The Yucatan Times puts the case count...

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A Thousand Virgins Corp. in Miami (City of Industry), FL is recalling all lots of tattoo Inks described below due to microbiological contamination. A Thousand Virgins grey wash inks; G1, G2 and G3, that...

UPDATE: 4th human plague case reported, this one in Boulder For the third time in two months, Colorado has reported a human plague case in a resident. Health officials with  The Pueblo City-County Health...

An individual who recently returned from West Africa gave people in Birmingham, AL a scare as emergency rescue crews were dispatched to the home because the individual had a fever. The patient was admitted...

Two people from Artamed village in Armenia’s Armavir province have been hospitalized after contracting the bacterial disease, anthrax, according to Armenian media accounts. It is reported that the two...

Wisconsin state health officials are looking into several cases of the fungal infection, Blastomycosis, and any possible link to Wolf River in New London. Madison news source, WKOW reports that two...

In the last 10 years, infection rates in California and Arizona have risen 400 percent, prompting California to designate August as Valley Fever Awareness Month. Valley Fever is caused by the inhalation...

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In light of the dozens of mumps cases reportedly linked to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, school officials are calling on students to receive a booster shot of the MMR (measles,...