public health

Lauri Jones has been working in public health in Washington’s Okanogan County for 17 years.But after repeated threats to her safety, she recently got a…

San Juan County in the northwest corner of Washington state is about to become the first county in the Pacific Northwest to require residents and visitors…

Health officials in Washington state said there have been 151 cases of mumps have been reported statewide since the end of October. Only 46 were reported…

The emergence of nine cases of a fungal infection known as Valley Fever in southeast Washington over the last five years has state and federal health…

Each day now, travelers are arriving home to the Northwest who may have been exposed to Ebola. In Oregon, a woman who has come back from West Africa was…

Public health authorities in Washington and Idaho are now investigating at least 79 cases of a serious respiratory illness that affects children.The…

Public health officials in the Northwest say they're seeing gonorrhea infections at levels they haven't seen in years. Three counties in Washington state…

Public health officials in the Northwest say a series of gonorrhea outbreaks shows little sign of letting up. In fact, in some places, rates of the STD…