By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New Hampshire state health officials reported Wednesday on the second case of Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV) infection of the year. The patient is an adult from Lanconia....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Duval County, FL health officials recently confirmed one measles case in an unimmunized child in Jacksonville. The Florida Department of Health in Duval County sent...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews North Carolina health officials have reported a third Legionnaires’ disease fatality linked to the NC Mountain State Fair, held September 6-15, 2019 at the Western...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews City of Lubbock, TX health officials are reporting a increase in shigellosis cases. Between September and October 2019, 21 cases of shigellosis have been reported....

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Michigan health officials report in a Weekly Arbovirus report Monday that 10 human Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) cases have been reported from six counties–...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Indiana health officials reported that a Elkhart County resident contracted the mosquito-borne viral infection, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), the first human...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the dengue fever situation in Florida in 2019, health officials in Miami-Dade County are reporting two additional locally acquired dengue fever...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In this news brief, I look at several US East Coast universities and colleges reporting mumps outbreaks in recent weeks. I look at the schools that span from South...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews New Hampshire health officials are asking the public’s help locating a man from Massachusetts who came in contact with a baby raccoon, which later died from...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Massachusetts health officials reported this week on an additional human West Nile virus (WNV) case in a man in his 60s from Middlesex County. This is the third...