The Multnomah County Health Department is looking into two confirmed cases of Hepatitis A in restaurant workers at two Cup & Saucer Cafe locations in Portland. Hepatitis A is a liver infection caused...

In an update on the E. coli outbreak at the Montessori of Alameda school in Portland, The Multnomah County Health Department said Wednesday that seven people have now been sickened by Escherichia coli...

The Multnomah County Health Department is investigating multiple cases of Escherichia coli E. coli O157, also called E. coli O157. As of Monday, six people associated with Montessori of Alameda preschool...

On Friday, the Portland Water Bureau received results that Cryptosporidium was detected in a routine water sample collected Monday, January 2, from the Bull Run watershed, which provides drinking water...

The contagious viral infection, mumps has been reported with increased frequency on college campuses in recent weeks with clusters reported from Indiana University, Butler University, the University of...

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A June 2013 report on elephant tuberculosis (TB) in “Rama” the 30-year-old Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo has found it’s way back into the news as a Centers for Disease Control and...

Oregon health officials reported a large increase in the sexually transmitted infection (STI), syphilis since 2007, infect, they put the increase at approximately 1500 percent. In 2007, 26 syphilis cases...

In a follow-up report to the E. coli outbreak in the Portland Metro area and a number of counties in Washington possibly linked to Chipotle restaurants, the total case count has nearly doubled from 22...

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Some 43 Chipotle restaurants in several counties in Oregon and Washington have been closed while health officials investigate an outbreak of Shiga toxin E. coli that has sickened 22 people, hospitalizing...

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The Multnomah County Health Department is investigating a laboratory-confirmed cluster of Salmonella infections linked to a conference in Portland from June 23 to 26, 2015. Health officials have tallied...