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With enterovirus D68 likely affecting more and more children throughout Upstate New York, and leading to a surge of children being admitted to hospital emergency rooms, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer...

The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) confirms two new deaths and 12 new human cases of West Nile virus (WNV), bringing the state total to 37 cases and five deaths so far in 2014. The deaths...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing in the U.S. of the first direct blood test for detection of five yeast pathogens that cause bloodstream infections: Candida albicans and/or...

Four additional states and the District of Columbia are the latest to report confirmed Enterovirus D68 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From mid-August to September...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the “Ebola Guidance for Airlines on Friday. Purpose: To give information to airlines on stopping ill travelers from boarding, managing and reporting...

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has issued the 2013 Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases Report. According to health officials, the annual report provides a yearly snapshot of...

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The City of El Paso Department of Public Health (DPH) has determined that more than 700 patients and more than 40 employees were exposed to a hospital employee with an active case of Tuberculosis (TB)...

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) Friday issued a mosquito-borne illness advisory after confirming a locally acquired case of Chikungunya Fever, a disease spread by bites...

In a follow-up to the death of Georgetown University nursing student, Andrea Jaime, the university has announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the cause was meningococcal...

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) confirmed 11 new cases of West Nile virus this week, of which seven were neuroinvasive disease infections, bringing this year’s total to 103...