Officials warn of the possibility of a spike in West Nile virus in Southern Nevada this summer.
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The “Safe Sleep” campaign aims to inform parents about the hazards of unsafe sleeping practices for infants.
Among the culprits are climate events — extreme heat, prolonged drought, heavy dust storms and wildfires — all of which increase air pollution, a clean air expert said.
State officials released the latest figures for coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and across Nevada
Hospitalizations from COVID-19, flu and RSV continued to decline in the Silver State, according to health officials.
Nevada and three others states are the only ones in which all counties are experencing low levels of the virus.
After a post-Thanksgiving spike this month, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and statewide continue to decline, new state data shows.
But that doesn’t mean that older people who get the virus are more likely to die than they were earlier in the pandemic, one expert says.
The Thanksgiving holiday is likely partially to blame for a steep increase in cases in the past week in Clark County and statewide.
Confirmed and suspected hospitalizations increased by 65 percent in Clark County, according to data released Wednesday by the state.
The patient was a man over the age of 50 with a compromised immune system.
Clark County has hit a milestone of 100 confirmed or probable cases of monkeypox, 99 of them in men, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Both hospitalizations and cases continue to decline in Clark County and Nevada.
The U.S. outbreak of monkeypox has touched Clark County, with a presumptive positive case reported in a local man who recently traveled within the country, officials said Wednesday.
The Southern Nevada Health District strongly recommends that people wear masks in public indoor places and stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations.