It’s that time of the year and the mosquitoes are biting. With that reality, at least since 1999 in the United States, West Nile virus (WNV) has become an annual issue. So far in 2014, the Centers...

The Saint Louis County Department of Health has received 71 case reports of shigellosis in the area since the start of the year. During this same time period in 2013, only two such cases were reported....

Two recent cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome were confirmed in residents of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, bringing the year’s total to three. Texas had one case in 2013. No cases were reported...

It appears that the mumps outbreak in Central Ohio is slowing as only four new cases were reported during the past week, according to a Columbus Public Health news release Wednesday. The number of cases...

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Thursday a laboratory confirmed case of tularemia in a 65 year-old woman from Bernalillo County. The cause of the woman’s illness was confirmed at the Department’s Scientific...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report today that reviews the early June incident that involved the unintentional exposure of personnel to potentially viable anthrax at...

Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County officials received confirmation of the first locally acquired case of dengue Fever in Miami-Dade County in 2014 on Wednesday, according to a health department...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment laboratory identified pneumonic plague in a Colorado resident earlier this week. Investigation revealed the family dog had recently died unexpectedly....

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has identified the state’s first two cases of travel-associated chikungunya virus. The patients, both of whom are adults from Sedgwick County, reported...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment today reported two human cases of West Nile virus, the first reported cases this season. The two cases are in Saguache and Pueblo counties. State...