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  @infectiousdiseasenews Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) is reporting the first case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Douglas County. The individual is a Douglas County resident...

On March 13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was alerted to five cases of acute non-viral hepatitis (resulting in acute liver failure) in infants and young children that occurred in November 2020...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The Washoe County Health District (WCHD) is urging the public to be vigilant against COVID-19 as a new variant originated in South Africa has been confirmed by the Nevada State...

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   @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public health officials in several states report investigating an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni...

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 In a follow-up to a recent report, the Washoe County Health District is reporting a second hantavirus case in recent days. The second Washoe County resident has died...