Last night news broke of a freelance NBC News cameraman who contracted the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and now he has been identified as 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo. Mukpo was hired Tuesday to be a second...

In a follow-up to a story published in August, “Tampa Bay area has seen dramatic increase in ‘crypto’ cases this summer“, the Hillsborough County Health Department (DOH-Hillsborough) is...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is reassuring the public that no immediate threat exists to Oklahoma residents from the Ebola case confirmed at a hospital in Dallas. At this time, the case...

The outbreak of the respiratory virus,  Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has now been confirmed in 43 states and the District of Columbia, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

In a follow-up to a story earlier, The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) has determined that the individual in isolation at a Honolulu hospital who was reported to the department as a possible Ebola...

October is the beginning of small game hunting season in Colorado. As the number of human tularemia cases in our state continues to rise, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reminds...

At least four family members of Ebola-confirmed patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, are essentially quarantined for the next 17 days, according to Texas health officials. Out of an abundance of caution, Texas...

With a total of 623 travel associated and locally acquired chikungunya cases, three states account for slightly more than half of all chikungunya cases in the United States, according to the latest data...

The man who became the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patient in the United States has been identified as 42-year-old Liberian, Thomas Eric Duncan, according to numerous reports. He is from Monrovia,...

The Rhode Island Department of Health has confirmed that a Rhode Island child died last week as a result of Staphylococcus aureus sepsis associated with enteroviral infection (EV-D68). Infection by both...