Utah Health

Since May 2nd, the CDC has been monitoring a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Among those in quarantine are 3 Uthans, and though the risk to the exposed individuals is severe, the threat of a greater spread is low.

Each fall, for the last ten years, a challenge has gone out to Utah and Southern Idaho’s high school students to create a poster that sends a strong message to the rest of us that the air we breathe is dangerously dirty and we need to do something about it.

The Utah Food Bank is seeing a large number of individuals in need of their services because of COVID-19 and rising inflation rates.

COVID-19 cases are rising in Utah due to the new Omicron sub-variant. Here is what local Infectious Disease experts are seeing across the state.

As wildfires continue to burn across the state of Utah, air quality throughout the state has been heavily impacted and could pose health concerns for those at risk.

A new Intermountain Healthcare study finds individuals who practice intermittent fasting experience less severe complications from COVID-19.

COVID-19 vaccines will become available for children ages five-and-under in the state. Utah health officials are working to answer all potential questions or concerns parents have about attaining the vaccine for their children.

House Bill 278, better known as ‘Scott’s bill’ had successfully passed its first challenge within the Utah Legislature.

This fall USU issued a COVID vaccination requirement for spring semester and students have responded overwhelmingly by getting vaccinated.

As the COVID-19 vaccine became available to younger populations in the US, pediatricians including Doctor Dongngan Truong with University of Utah Health, started to notice cases of myocarditis, which is essentially inflammation of the heart.