By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In Kentucky today, Governor Andy Beshear and state leaders, including top health officials, confirmed Kentucky’s first case of COVID-19. The case is in Lexington,...

University of Kentucky officials were informed this week that a student has been hospitalized with a probable case of bacterial meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is a serious, and potentially fatal disease....

On the opening day of the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville Thursday, ​Health and Family Services Cabinet Sec. Vickie Yates Brown Glisson, Department of Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, and representatives...

The University Health Service (UHS) with the University of Kentucky (UK) announced three confirmed mumps cases, This follows reports of  a cluster of cases of parotitis (swelling of the salivary glands)...