NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported last week on a case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a 13-year-old Quarter Horse mare in Jackson County. The...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Illinois state health officials reported Tuesday of an individual who tested positive for Heartland Virus. The patient, described as an “older person who resides in a rural...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on a report last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports two additional human infections with a novel influenza A virus in West Virginia. The...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) report investigating several reports of individuals who have developed influenza-like illness after working closely...

By Jory Lange An E. coli outbreak in Jackson County, Oregon has hospitalized 10 people and sickened 15.  Several of the people hospitalized are children.  Jackson County Public Health are working to...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has reported two additional equine cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in recent days in Lake and...

Alabama state health officials report investigating a hepatitis A outbreak in Jackson County in the northeastern part of the state. This outbreak may have spread to surrounding counties. Persons at highest...

China The China National Health and Family Planning Commission reported 21 additional human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9), including four deaths, from March 10 to 16. The 19 male and two female patients,...

On August 3, two new Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) case were confirmed, one each in Jackson and Jefferson County, Florida. The Jackson County case, a 10 year old Quarter Horse, became clinical on July...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) began a collaborative mosquito surveillance project with Oklahoma State University (OSU) entomologists this Spring to detect the possible presence of Aedes...