Kentucky health officials are reporting a chickenpox outbreak at a school in the city of Walton. There are currently 32 cases at the Students at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart/Assumption Academy to date. “Although...

A few weeks ago, articles were published concerning the Kentucky hepatitis A virus (HAV) outbreak, the nation’s largest, and the states response, or lack of adequate response. The response was...

The University of Louisville (UofL) Campus Health Services is reporting an undergraduate student has been diagnosed and hospitalized with meningococcal meningitis. The student resides in a UofL residential...

On Sunday’s show I look at a variety of topics that are pressing in the news today. Measles and vaccines are important topics as UNICEF says global cases are surging to alarmingly high levels. Madagascar’s...

Kentucky health officials reported Friday on a confirmed measles case in an unvaccinated child living in the region served by the Barren River District Health Department. The child recently traveled...

Earlier this month, we reported on a hepatitis A outbreak update for Kentucky. In that report, Kentucky health officials put the death toll in the outbreak at 25. However, according to new data released...

The largest hepatitis A outbreak in the nation continues to get larger as Kentucky health officials reported the updated outbreak case this past week. With the 79 cases reported during the fourth week...

Kentucky state health officials are reporting more than 3,000 hepatitis A outbreak cases since Aug. 2017. As of Dec. 1, the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) has identified 3,021 hepatitis A...

The Northern Kentucky Health Department (NKY Health) is continuing to see an increase in cases of hepatitis A in Northern Kentucky (Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton Counties) as part of the larger statewide...

In a follow-up on the hepatitis A outbreak in Kentucky, state health officials report over 2,000 confirmed, probable and suspect cases of acute hepatitis A, a liver disease caused by hepatitis A virus...