The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed that a fox found near Molly Creek Circle and Century Drive in Ridgeway, SC has tested positive for rabies. No people are...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Connecticut state health officials are reporting a second confirmed case of measles in a Fairfield County child. The child is a household contact of the child who...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Connecticut state health officials report a confirmed case of measles in a Fairfield County child.  The child, who was not yet vaccinated against measles, acquired the infection...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Connecticut health officials has confirmed a fourth case of measles in a school aged child from Fairfield County. The public health investigation of this case has...

The Asian longhorned tick has been found for the first time in Connecticut during weekly tick monitoring in Fairfield County by researchers at Western Connecticut State University (WCSU). The invasive...

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...

Some twenty people have been hospitalized and one has died due to a botulism outbreak that has been linked to a church potluck dinner over the weekend in Lancaster, Ohio. The Fairfield Medical Center...