infectious diseases

A Central Texas hotel temporarily closed its doors last week once public health officials disclosed an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe and sometimes deadly form of pneumonia.

Mass immigration could potentially lead to a deadly public health crisis in the United States, according to a new report.

Typhus, a flea-borne infectious disease thought to be all but eradicated in the United States, appears to be on the rise in Texas, say tropical disease experts.

Fears of tuberculosis loom over one Texas school district where hundreds of students must be tested this week before returning to classrooms in late August.

Texas officials hope to contain the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and avoid a serious health threat by conducting a second round of mass testing at a Houston-area high school where, in recent weeks, the number of people that tested positive for the infection jumped from four to six and now, 10.

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) announced on Tuesday that the measles outbreak has now spread to a fourth county in the south of the state and the number of cases has increased to 60.