First two cases of flu reported in Ky.; time to get your vaccine
Flu season in Kentucky typically begins in October or November, and is right on schedule as state public health officials have reported the first two confirmed cases of the season...
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Flu season in Kentucky typically begins in October or November, and is right on schedule as state public health officials have reported the first two confirmed cases of the season...
As concern about the spread of measles from lack of vaccination grows, many Kentucky counties probably have vaccination rates below the minimum that experts say is needed to create “herd...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Fearing the Ebola virus, administrators at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School in Louisville put Susan Sherman, a registered nurse and an elementary school teacher,...
The Ebola virus isn’t a risk to Americans now, but will be “down the road” if the epidemic is not contained, says a crisis communication consultant who’s been working for...
This story was updated Monday, Oct. 13 Several days ago, Thomas Eric Duncan died from ebola after arriving in Dallas from Liberia. He didn’t appear to be ill during his...
Five students at Crab Orchard Elementary School in Lincoln County have been diagnosed with chickenpox, putting the county school system on alert, Ben Kleppinger reports for The Interior Journal in...
A new deadly superbug that is almost totally resistant to antibiotics and kills about half who get bloodstream infections has found its way to community hospitals in the Southeastern United...
This is an update of a story posted Tuesday. The state Department for Public Health said Tuesday that influenza in Kentucky has gone beyond regional breakouts to being widespread, the...
Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D., an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, was installed as president of the American Medical Association at its annual meeting Tuesday night in Chicago. The AMA...
The movie “Contagion” has veteran journalist and commentator Bill Moyers thinking about how fast a deadly disease outbreak can spread, something that can be further propagated by children whose parents have...