ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Health Department is reporting a scabies outbreak at an area school. Officials say there are 27 confirmed cases at City Garden Montessori in south St. Louis. The human itch mite is what causes scabies, according to the CDC. Symptoms include intense itching and a pimple-like rash. It can spread […]
Whooping cough, a highly contagious disease most dangerous to babies, is on the rise in Kootenai County, home to Coeur d’Alene in North Idaho, health officials say. Panhandle Health District announced in a news release on Wednesday that the district has reported 19 confirmed cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, in Kootenai County, […] The post Whooping cough cases rise in North Idaho’s Kootenai County, health officials say appeared first on Idaho Capital Sun.
Researchers in San Antonio loosely connected a deer-specific disease to the deaths of two hunters — which would be the first known cases of it jumping to humans. But there is more to the story.
Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. North Carolina on Wednesday became the seventh state to report an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a dairy herd, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed infections in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Michigan, Idaho and New Mexico. While the first