The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced awards of nearly $110 million to help states and communities strengthen their capacity to track and respond to infectious diseases....

Health officials with the Tippecanoe County Health Department has confirmed that a person with Purdue University is positive for the serious zoonotic viral disease, hantavirus. Confirmation testing was...

New York City health officials, in an update yesterday, is reporting 71 cases of Legionella infection, including four related deaths, have been reported among people who live in, work in, or visited the High...

In a follow-up to a report on the salmonella outbreak that has sickened scores in Washington State, federal food safety officials have issued a warning when handling whole pigs for roasting. The U.S....

The botulism outbreak that sickened dozens at a Ohio church potluck dinner in April has been linked to potato salad prepared with improperly home-canned potatoes, according to a Centers for Disease Control...

In an update to the expanding Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in the New York City’s Bronx borough, New York City health officials now report four fatalities linked to the bacterial disease...

The mumps case count linked to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus has grown to 60, according to a CNN report Friday. Health officials with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District...

In a follow-up to an earlier report of a salmonella outbreak, potentially linked to pork, in Washington State, the case load has increased to 90 prompting officials to seek assistance from the Centers...

Flint Hills Community Health Center officials report that Lyon County has had its first lab-confirmed case of an emerging mosquito-transmitted virus in 2015. Chikungunya, pronounced chik-en-gun-ye, is...

While we’ve been keeping a close eye on the Cyclospora outbreak in the state of Texas this year, not much was known about the parasitic disease in other areas of the US in 2015…until now. The...