CDC - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

School is getting underway this week in the city of Birmingham as well as Mobile, Baldwin, and Montgomery Counties. Healthcare providers say measles shots should be on the list of things to do along with books, pencils, and erasers.

The latest number of cyclospora cases, from the Alabama Department of Public Health, is 85 (updated) plus two hospitalizations. This new data was followed by news of two fatalities in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday.

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The total number of states in the recalled is reportedly twenty seven and Alabama is one of them.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a mobile lab to test for black lung and other ailments common to coal miners in Alabama. The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Health has screenings scheduled in Sumiton today. Stops in Bessemer, Berry, Brookwood, Adger, and Tuscaloosa begin tomorrow.

At least 45 people in nearly two dozen states have been sickened with salmonella food poisoning tied to the Super Greens brand of diet supplement powder, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Raw pet food diets are gaining in popularity, but they are controversial, with veterinary groups and animal hospital groups discouraging the idea.