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State and local health officials in Wisconsin are investigating an outbreak of bloodstream infections caused by bacteria called Elizabethkingia anophelis. In addition, a team of epidemiologists and...

Federal health officials are reporting the fourth cruise ship outbreak in the past week and the fifth of 2016 on Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Sunshine. Nearly 4 percent of the 3000 passengers...

The University of California at Berkeley has reported nearly 30 cases of students reporting norovirus-like symptoms during the past 10 days and now school officials say that three of the students have...

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State and county health officials announced Monday a confirmed Zika virus infection in a U.S. citizen diagnosed in Spokane County, Washington. The individual is female, in her 20s, and was in an area...

Two ships reported outbreaks of vomiting and diarrhea in passengers and crew resembling norovirus, according to the latest reports from officials. Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Anthem of the Seas has...

Two new Zika cases have been confirmed in Miami-Dade County, according to the Florida Department of Health’s Daily Zika update today. This brings the total in the state to 44.  Counties reporting...

The Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) continues to monitor the recent reported cases of Zika in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Tonga, and the Americas.  To...

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Utah public health officials have received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that a Utah resident has tested positive for the Zika virus. The patient, a child between...

Health officials at Harvard University reported on two confirmed cases of the contagious viral disease, mumps, in students at the Divinity School, according to a report in the school’s  daily newspaper. The...

One student at UNC Charlotte has been diagnosed with confirmed mumps, a viral infection that may result in swelling of the parotid or salivary gland(s) near the neck and jaw. There has been an increase...