Ohio health officials have reported the state’s first case of Zika virus in a returning traveler from Haiti, a 30-year-old Cuyahoga County woman, city of Cleveland. The Centers for Disease Control...

With the dengue fever case count now at 251 on Hawaii Island since October last year, the mayor of Hawaii’s Big Island Billy Kenoi declared a state of emergency. The move is an effort get the mosquito...

In a White House statement today: The Pan American Health Organization reports 26 countries and territories in the Americas with local Zika transmission.  While we have not yet seen transmission of the...

The Federal Government has been monitoring the Zika virus and working with our domestic and international public health partners to alert healthcare providers and the public about Zika; provide public...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, report the discovery of a new species of bacteria (Borrelia...

After reporting 27 confirmed leprosy, or Hansen’s disease cases in 2015, significantly higher than the average of 10 cases seen most years, the start of 2016 appears to be a continuation of last...

In October 2014, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made headlines after quarantining Maine nurse who returned from Sierra Leone after treating Ebola-infected patients, Kaci Hickox, who was put in an...

To date, laboratory-confirmed Zika virus has been reported in 11 states and Washington, DC, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as of Feb. 3. All cases in the United States...

The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment has received confirmation of one positive case of norovirus associated with the investigation at Buffalo Wild Wings at the end of January. Additional...

An Englewood, Colorado hospital is notifying nearly 3,000 patients who had surgery between August 17, 2015 and January 22, 2016 in the main operating rooms and in the orthopedic operating rooms on October...