Missouri state health officials have reported a four-fold increase in influenza, or flu cases to start out the 2017-2018 flu season. As of November 25, 2017, there were 1,545 cases of the flu reported...

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported last week of a Legionnaires’ disease case in a resident of the Illinois Veteran’s Home in Quincy (IVHQ). The patient has since been treated and...

In a follow-up to a report last month of a gastrointestinal outbreak of unknown etiology on board the Princess Cruises vessel, Crown Princess, Vessel Sanitation Program officials are now reporting the...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting the public to a recall of Comforts FOR BABY Purified Water with Fluoride with certain sell by dates, sold by Kroger in various affiliated stores, due...

Mumps is a contagious viral illness, characterized by fever, headaches, and swollen salivary glands under the jaw (pictured). Meningitis, encephalitis, permanent hearing loss, and other serious complications...

An increase this year in the number of cases of flea-borne typhus across multiple areas of the state is prompting the Texas Department of State Health Services to remind people to take precautions to...

For the first time since May, San Luis Obispo County (SLO) health officials have reported a death due to the fungal infection, Valley Fever, or coccidioidomycosis, making it the sixth of the year. According...

During the past decade, 2016 saw the most Vibrio vulnificus cases in Florida topping out at 46. That record didn’t last long as state health officials have reported 48 cases in 2017 to date. Counties...

Washington state health officials are reporting a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 18 people in several counties and in Oregon. Eighteen people from King (5), Mason (1), Pierce (1), Snohomish (7), Thurston...

Detroit health officials are investigating two cases of hepatitis A in employees of a McDonald’s and the Greektown Casino. On Tuesday, health officials announced investigating a Hepatitis A case...