Diseases

The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that a 12-year-old girl from Valencia County has been diagnosed with West Nile virus infection. She was hospitalized with neuroinvasive disease, the more serious form of the illness, but is now at home recovering. This is the first human case of We... « read more »

Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It affects adults, but it is the most common long-term disease of children. « read more »

A rabid fox from Lincoln County that bit a woman on April 20 had a strain of rabies that has never before been identified. « read more »

The World Health Organization declared Liberia free from Ebola on Saturday after 42 days without a new case of the virus, which killed more than 4,700 people there during a year-long epidemic. « read more »