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"The numbers have already doubled and we're only halfway through the year," said Nichole Bache, director of nursing for the city health department.

Fleaborne typhus is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with reported cases nearly tripling over the past decade, from 31 in 2010 to 171 in 2022. The disease can be severe but is rarely fatal, and three deaths last year – the first in nearly 30 years in the county – led the US Centers and Disease Control Prevention to investigate.

Health officials say that cases of leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, are surging in Central Florida. In a news release Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Central Florida has accounted for 81 percent of reported cases in the state and almost one-fifth of reported cases nationwide. “Leprosy has been…

Hate crimes targeting Asians and other communities in Los Angeles saw an alarming surge in 2022, according to a report released by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Rise of hate: The LAPD's analysis, presented to the city's Police Commission on Tuesday, revealed that a total of 701 hate crimes and hate incidents across different groups were reported in 2022, registering a 15% increase from the previous year of 610. Among these, anti-Hispanic hate crimes decreased from the pre...

ER visits, positive tests and wastewater signals related to COVID are all on a slight rise

The United States now has had eight reported cases of malaria, seven of them in Florida, state health officials reported.

Maritime piracy is back on the foreign policy radar screen.

Now that health officials have finalized all of the 2021 data, the increase is worse than what was announced back in March.

Norovirus cases have risen in recent months, but travelers should not be any more worried than usual.

Reposted from Monthly Review online Photo: Members of the medical team from Beijing’s China-Japan Friendship Hospital meet their family members after