In The News: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Tick season is not only starting sooner—it’s becoming a year-round event. While April through September are usually the most active months, the pesky eight-legged parasites are biting people and animals much earlier in the year than expected. The increasing tick bites are leading to a rise in a variety of tick-borne diseases, including some that were previously uncommon.
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A potentially deadly fungus that is resistant to medicine is spreading quickly across the United States, and Nevada has the most cases of any state in the last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The highest number of monkeypox (mpox) cases in the world is reported in the United States, with a total of 30,225 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of March 1, 2023, 38 deaths had been recorded.
“DO I HAVE LONG COVID?” That question has probably crossed your mind if you’re still dealing with lingering symptoms, like fatigue, brain fog, or shortness of breath, weeks or months after recovering from Covid-19.
Public health authorities are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at The Orleans after two guests contracted the form of pneumonia. Both guests, who stayed separately at the hotel in December and January, have since recovered from the disease, officials with the Southern Nevada Health District said Friday.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal flu cases were lower than average. But this year cases roared back with a high number of cases early in the season. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), there were an estimated 25 million illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations, and 18,000 flu-related deaths caused by this flu season as of February 24, 2023.
In mid-May 2022, still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, another virus arrived on the scene in Massachusetts: monkeypox. The vaccine to cure the condition was accessible, but the coronavirus was the overwhelming priority for millions of lives in the United States.
A cruise ship carrying 800 Covid-positive passengers recently docked in Sydney after being hit with a major COVID-19 outbreak—a scenario eerily reminiscent of the early pandemic days. It was a stark reminder that the pandemic is not over, and that cruising still presents a certain level of COVID-19 risk.
The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to decline in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all counties having low levels of the disease.
The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all of its counties experiencing low levels of the disease.
When Steve Sisolak won the governor’s race in 2018, it marked the first time Nevada elected a Democratic governor in two decades, ushered in by a blue wave that also gave Democrats their first trifecta — control of the governor’s mansion, the Senate and the Assembly — in three decades.