Montgomery Community Media

As a precautionary measure – in response to the recent spread of canine influenza (dog flu) in Montgomery County — the Recreation Department has canceled its popular Pooch Pool Party scheduled for September 7 and 8. “In light of the canine flu that has shown up in Montgomery County, we are canceling the Pooch Pool […]

Montgomery Parks, part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, is alerting park visitors of recent instances of canine influenza (dog flu) in Montgomery County first reported by ABC7/WJLA. A bulletin released by the state of Maryland confirms the report and indicates that canine influenza “…causes an acute respiratory infection and is highly contagious. […]

Preliminary estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000. The preliminary estimates were presented Sunday night (Aug. 18) in Boston at the 2013 International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases. This early estimate is based on […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have confirmed that a patient who recently died of rabies in Maryland contracted the infection through organ transplantation done more than a year ago.  The patient was one of four people who had received an organ from the same […]