Health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Iowa Department of Health, are ...

An eastern Iowa resident died Monday from a viral disease similar to Ebola that was likely contracted during a recent trip to ...

The patient had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center - with testing by the ...

The agencies are trying to determine who may have had close contact with the patient, who had been treated in isolation at ...

The middle-aged Iowa resident had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed they contracted the ...

The individual had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed the person contracted the virus.

New CDC population data from 2023 show that in 23 states more than one in three adults (35 percent) has obesity. Before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35 percent. Currently ...

Lassa fever is spread by infected rats in parts of West Africa. Cases in the U.S. are not common. However, a patient recently ...

About 90 percent of Iowa’s population receives water that has been treated with fluoride. But what is it? What does it do? And why do some cities not treat their water?

A suspected case of Lassa fever has claimed the life of an Iowa resident who recently returned from West Africa, prompting an ...

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it had confirmed a middle-aged, unnamed eastern Iowa ...

Lassa fever is primarily spread by rats found in West Africa, the CDC says. An Iowa resident has died after contracting a ...