NewsDesk @bactiman63 Texas animal health officials have reported additional cases of animal anthrax in the state over the past month: Anthrax Confirmed in an Edwards County Spanish Goat Texas Animal...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Galveston County Health District regrets to inform residents of a death due to Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus.). Vibrio is a bacterium that naturally lives in coastal waters,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is reporting a confirmed case of measles in a resident of McCulloch County. The last confirmed measles case in Texas was in June...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Austin Public Health is reporting the death of a Travis County resident after developing an illness caused by an amebic meningitis infection. The resident became ill after swimming...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Public health officials have confirmed the state’s first case of illness caused by West Nile virus in 2023. Dallas County Health and Human Services reported that a resident of Dallas...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Houston health officials are reporting a syphilis outbreak responsible for a 128 percent increase in cases among women and a nine-fold rise in congenital syphilis in Houston and...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Houston Health Department, Harris County Public Health (HCPH), and the Fort Bend Health & Human Services (FBCHHS) have received reports of an increased number of Cyclospora...

By: Candess Zona Mendola of MakeFoodSafe.com Last week, the local Fort Bend Health Department announced through the local media an outbreak of Legionella linked to a 55+ community in Fulshear, TX. Thus...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) officials received confirmation of anthrax in a hair sheep, on a premises in Crockett County on June 26, 2023. This is the first case of anthrax...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Following two locally transmitted Plasmodium vivax cases in Sarasota, Florida reported since late May, Texas state health officials report today on a case of malaria diagnosed in...