NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Southern Nevada Health District reports investigating travel-associated cases of Legionnaires’ disease in guests who stayed at Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino and The Orleans...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Southern Nevada Health District is investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease reported in guests who stayed separately at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District have reported a death in a Clark County resident due to the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. The patient was a male, under...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Southern Nevada Health District reported this week on a presumptive positive case of monkeypox in a Clark County resident with recent domestic travel history. The Health District...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Last Monday, the Southern Nevada Health District reported the state’s first reported case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant in Clark County. The individual...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Last year, the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) in Las Vegas reported on a gonorrhea case with reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone and cefixime. Today, the Southern...

The U.S. is in the grips of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic and the numbers are rising at a rapid pace. A vaccine is what public health officials are banking on to get us out of it. With that,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews West Nile virus The number of human West Nile virus (WNV) in the Las Vegas area has increased to 36, according to the latest information from the Southern Nevada...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In the Las Vegas/Clark County area, health officials have declared an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) after receiving reports of 28 cases of the disease in humans...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District are informing individuals and the public of a possible measles exposure at several sites along the Las Vegas strip....