Vermont is reporting a statewide outbreak of hepatitis A, joining 30 other states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that have seen a marked increase in the number of cases, the Vermont Health Department said Thursday. The outbreak was in its early stages, and health officials had been anticipating it based on what’s happened in other states, said Health Commissioner Dr….

Three cases of whooping cough have been reported at a high school in Maine, News Center Maine reports. The outbreak has been confirmed at Freeport High School in Freeport. The three cases of pertussis were reported over the past two weeks. Pertussis, which is commonly known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection. Patients with the infection…

At least 27 new cases of illnesses linked to the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak have been reported.

The number of confirmed measles cases near Portland grew to 31 on Friday — an outbreak boosted by lower-than-normal vaccination rates in what has been called an anti-vaccination U.S. “hot spot.” Public health officials in southwest Washington, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, said people may have been exposed to the dangerous disease at more than three dozen...

The Vermont Health Department says it’s working with a retirement community in Shelburne to battle an illness outbreak. Officials said Tuesday that 22 cases of Shigellosis have been confirmed among Wake Robin residents, staff, and visitors and 44 probable cases have been reported.

Parents continue to opt their school-aged children out of vaccination schedules as fears over vaccinations linger in the public sphere. Experts at Texas Children’s Hospital say fears over vaccines causing autism – a theory disproven by the scientific community – may spark a comeback in illnesses like measles and other deadly infectious diseases in children.

A North Reading, Massachusetts restaurant is closed indefinitely following several complaints and a salmonella outbreak investigation conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

New Hampshire state officials say they’ve confirmed an outbreak of whooping cough at a school in Exeter.

An outbreak of measles in Minnesota has led to 44 infected people, nearly all of them children, the Minnesota department of health says. Eleven kids are in the hospital and more cases of measles are expected, NBC News reported. Doubts about vaccines helped fuel Minnesota’s biggest outbreak of measles in decades and attracted determined vaccine skeptics eager to exploit fear,...