Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising ...

Whooping Cough cases around the state, including Whatcom County, have reached an epidemic level. To help prevent the spread of this sometimes deadly--and preventable--illness, the Whatcom County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whatcom County Health Department confirms the first case of measles in 2025. For the first time in seven years, a Whatcom County ...

Whatcom County is asking the state Department of Health to explain how it allocates the COVID-19 vaccine amid an ongoing state and nationwide shortage, saying it is “concerned about the lack of ...

Whatcom County contained two measles cases through rapid response and protocol. Health officials identified 33 contacts and spent 320 hours on containment efforts. Low MMR vaccination rates in ...

WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. - New test results of shellfish in the waters off Whatcom County have surprised county health officials, forcing them to issue a warning. The new testing has detected marine ...

Two people in a Whatcom County family have now tested positive for measles, and the county health department is reaching out to anyone who might have been exposed. One of the infected people was at ...

Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu has chosen an epidemiologist and health officer from Maryland as the director of the Department of Health and Community Services, according to an emailed ...

The Washington State Department of Health has closed all beaches in Whatcom County, including Point Roberts, to the recreational harvesting of all species of shellfish due to unsafe levels of a ...

Most TB patients in the county are uninsured, meaning Washington state’s TB program supplies the county with medications at no cost. TB treatment can be isolating and brutal, sometimes including 12 ...