Late last week, officials with University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) reported to county health officials two patients being treated in their cardiac care unit diagnosed with the serious type...

Ohio’s first 2016 death in a human West Nile virus (WNV) case was reported Friday by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). The 84-year-old Cuyahoga County man had been hospitalized with encephalitis. There...

On Friday, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced that more than 164,000 giant African land snails (GALS) have been eliminated in Florida since the invasive snail was discovered...

The number of hepatitis A cases in the outbreak linked to frozen strawberries imported from Egypt stands at 102 in seven states, according to federal and state health officials. As of Sep. 8, the breakdown...

The Galveston County Health District (GCHD) has confirmed the first two human cases of West Nile virus (WNV) of 2016 in Galveston County. Although these are the first human cases of WNV this year in Galveston...

The Minnesota Department of Health is working with Hennepin County Public Health officials to investigate a cluster of five confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease in people who live or work in Hopkins,...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) confirmed the first deaths due to West Nile Virus (WNV) this year in LA County (excluding Long Beach and Pasadena as cases identified...

While Zika virus dominates the news, Florida has also seen other, related mosquito borne diseases this year via travel. Let’s start with dengue fever. Forty cases of dengue with onset in 2016 have...

A San Diego County resident has been diagnosed with mumps and may have exposed others while attending a concert at the Casbah in San Diego, the County Health and Human Services Agency reported Friday. The...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Friday on the state’s first case of Zika virus infection by sexual transmission. “A Pennsylvania resident contracted the Zika virus from a mosquito...