Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is the first US Senator to test positive. According to posts on his Twitter feed, the Senator is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In Kentucky today, Governor Andy Beshear and state leaders, including top health officials, confirmed Kentucky’s first case of COVID-19. The case is in Lexington,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Kentucky reported three additional outbreak hepatitis A cases in recent weeks putting the state’s outbreak total to 5,001. The outbreak...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Kentucky state health officials and the Barbourville Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) hospital are working closely with the local health department and Centers...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Is hepatitis A and the large outbreaks in the US the ‘Rodney Dangerfield’ of infectious diseases in America? There was a recent article that listed the...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Grayson County, Kentucky are reporting a recent increase in cases of the tickborne disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). They report...

According to the CDC, since the hepatitis A outbreaks were first identified in 2016, more than 17,000 cases reported and at least 170 deaths as a result of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection have been reported. Pennsylvania...

On the latest Outbreak News This Week, I look at news from Florida and then expand to national and international news, and a little research. The Florida hepatitis A outbreak keeps adding up and we look...

Kentucky continues to report outbreak cases of hepatitis A as the state has reported the most cases of any in the US. Through May 4, 4,621 outbreak cases have been recorded, including 2,233 people that...

By Jory Lange The CDC reports that 196 people have been infected with the same outbreak strain of E. coli O103. That’s 19 more people since the last update, on April 26th.   10 states have been affected...