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San Diego health officials are reporting a second chickenpox cluster in as many weeks in a second school. Last week, officials said six students at San Diego Cooperative Charter School’s Linda Vista...

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The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) recently received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that a woman who traveled to Puerto Rico while pregnant has tested...

Iowa health officials reported Friday the 5th imported Zika virus infection of the year in a traveler to Central America. The patient is a non-pregnant, middle-aged woman. The first travel associated...

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Last summer-fall, the Illinois Veteran’s Home – Quincy suffered a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that sickened dozens and killed a number of people. On Friday, The Illinois Department of...

State health officials warned Coloradans Friday to avoid hantavirus exposure. There have been two confirmed cases of hantavirus in the state this year, one of which resulted in death. Hantavirus is a...

With some 40 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) students coming down ill with norovirus-like symptoms (nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and fever) during the past week, school officials announced that the La...

Ninety-two passengers and five crew members have been taken ill with symptoms of vomiting on the latest Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Wonder. About 3.5 percent of the more than 2600 passengers onboard...

More than 16 percent of passengers onboard the Fred Olsen Cruises ship, Balmoral, have been stricken with gastrointestinal illness caused by norovirus. 159 of the approximately 1400 passengers and crew...

Florida health officials reported Friday on two additional travel associated Zika virus cases in the state, one in Pasco County and one in Orange County. This is the sixth case reported in Orange County...

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Last week we reported on local Zika virus transmission in Papua New Guinea based on retrospective testing on samples from patients with symptoms from July 2014 and March 2016. This has prompted the...