The Panhandle Health District has confirmed one case of mumps in a North Idaho adult over 50 years old. This is not considered an outbreak. No local spread of mumps from this case has been identified...

Following the recent plague deaths of two Elmore County, Idaho cats, the Central District Health Department has reported a third cat that tested positive for the agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, in Ada...

As of Friday, laboratory tests indicate that an Elmore County cat died from plague, and initial tests on a second cat have come back as positive. Additional testing is being done. Both cats had contact...

In a follow-up to a report of the plague deaths of ground squirrels reported in Ada and Elmore counties, Idaho, the Central District Health Department reported Friday the death of  a Elmore County...

Preliminary tests of ground squirrels (whistle pigs) found dead in desert areas of Ada and Elmore counties have come back positive for plague.  Idaho public health and Idaho Fish and Game officials are...

Health officials in Canyon County in western Idaho are reporting a syphilis outbreak among men, according to a KBOI2 report. The outbreak of the sexually transmitted infection in the Treasure Valley has...

Idaho Fish and Game officials on Tuesday put the estimated number of whitetail deer dead due to the viral disease, bluetongue at 1,000. Bluetongue is transmitted the same way as Epizootic Hemorrhagic...

In the United States, vaccine exemption levels for kindergarteners are low for most states and infant vaccination rates are high nationally, according to a report in the Centers for Disease Control and...

A recent report from Salt Lake City’s KSL.com caught my eye as it told the story of a  12-year-old boy, Cole Williams, of Malad, Idaho who contracted, was treated for and survived a rare infection...

Idaho’s first human case of West Nile virus infection this year has been confirmed in a Washington County woman in southwest Idaho. The woman, over the age of 50, is recovering from West Nile fever...