By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced the declaration of a hepatitis A outbreak in the Keystone State, making it the 23th state to do so since mid-2016. Since...

Allegheny County health officials are reporting the first case of measles in Pennsylvania this year in a Pittsburgh adult. The individual, who is not vaccinated, recently traveled internationally. This...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) and the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak. So far in 2018, Pennsylvania has had 81 hepatitis A cases reported...

The Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) announced Friday that the county has its first probable human case of West Nile Virus (WNV) in 2018. Samples are being sent to the Centers for Disease Control...

Lyme disease cases among children are on the rise in western Pennsylvania, according to researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The findings are published online today in Clinical...

Allegheny County health officials reported a confirmed measles case in an Allegheny County resident. The resident diagnosed with measles was potentially contagious from January 17-25, 2018. During that...

The Allegheny Valley School District advised parents in a letter Tuesday of an unidentified individual at Springdale High School who tested positive for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Superintendent...

University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown associate professor Dr. Jill Henning’s multi-year study on the risk of Lyme disease in western Pennsylvania concluded that one in three deer ticks carry the Lyme...

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Health officials in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania are reporting a laboratory-acquired Zika virus infection, which health officials are calling “unique”. The Allegheny County Health...

With some 40 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) students coming down ill with norovirus-like symptoms (nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and fever) during the past week, school officials announced that the La...