Measles outbreaks across Europe and Central Asia intensified in the first quarter of 2024, with incidence rates of up to hundreds of times higher than the United States. One of the worst-affected areas...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Illinois Department of Public Health are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella, a bacteria that is a common cause of foodborne...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is working with the Shelby County Health Department and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) to investigate...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is working with local health departments, the CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS),...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Illinois Department of Public Health announced that cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) are on the rise in Chicago and suburban Cook County and is urging those at-risk...

By: Candess Zona Mendola of MakeFoodSafe.com Health officials have announced 2 cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been linked to an L.A. Fitness location in Niles, Illinois. The affected areas...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) on late Thursday afternoon confirmed one case of Legionnaire’s Disease...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) is expanding its existing wastewater surveillance program to begin testing for poliovirus. Wastewater testing began this week to analyze...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the outbreak linked to D.C. Cobb’s restaurant in McHenry, Illinois, The McHenry County Department of Health (MCDH) is reporting its investigation into the recent...

By Jory Lange The McHenry County Department of Health has linked D.C. Cobb’s to an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.  According to ABC 7 Eyewitness News, “MCDH said it has identified an outbreak...