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In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an increase in Ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella sonnei cases and concluded that the drug resistance bacterium is mostly be introduced...

In a follow-up to a story last week, the US Department of Defense (DoD) released an update on the live anthrax shipments that were sent around the world yesterday. The DoD says they ordered a comprehensive...

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The Southwest Utah Public Health Department (SWUPHD) has received confirmation that a food handler working at a restaurant in Iron County has tested positive for hepatitis A. The health department is...

It’s finally official. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) reported on June 1 that the cause of the outbreak on board Oceania Cruises’ Oceania...

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Groundbreaking for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), a $1.25 billion project by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), took place last Wednesday in Manhattan, Kansas. The new...

While a number of American universities and colleges have reported cases, and in some cases, outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis in 2015, the University of Kansas lost one of their own to a different and...

Although Pennsylvania recorded nearly 100 imported chikungunya virus cases in 2014 (96) and two cases so far this year, it has never been seen in York County–until now. According to a York Dispatch...

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Public health officials are teaming up to fight a new public health threat in Washington – Valley Fever. Since discovering the fungus that causes Valley Fever in South Central Washington last year,...

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The Defense Department is launching a comprehensive review of its laboratory procedures, processes, and protocols associated with inactivating spore-forming anthrax, according to a DoD news release issued...

One Ohio woman lost her vision in one eye after her pet cat licked it- a reminder about the infectious disease risk of cat licks and bites caused by the agent of cat scratch disease (CSD)-Bartonella henselae. Toledo...