Denton County Public Health

Public health departments relied on COVID funding to expand testing, lab and vaccination capabilities. Local health leaders say the federal government's clawback of $11.4 billion will undermine that growth.

A Sanger resident has been diagnosed with the neuroinvasive form of the West Nile virus.

The first case of West Nile virus this year has been identified in Denton County, Denton County Public Health announced Thursday.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas has the second-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the country. Denton County Public Health is working to change that statistic through community testing.

COVID-19 cases were already rising ahead of the holidays, and the trend is continuing into 2023.

As cases of the COVID-19 variant omicron continue to increase across North Texas, public health departments are ramping up testing availability.

The Texas Department of State Health Services is set to receive 1.3 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine for children between 5 and 11. Chief State Epidemiologist Jennifer Shuford explains what this means for families across Texas.

Now that COVID-19 booster shots have been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration for people in high-risk groups, here's how the rollout will work in North Texas.

A vaccination can prevent 90% of cancers caused by human papillomavirus or HPV. But Texas has been slow to embrace it. Denton County's public health…

Public health departments have put together a voluntary national accreditation system to hold themselves accountable to the public. The director of…

Denton County's in year two of a three-year plan to improve coordination of health information and services to its population. Dr. Matt Richardson,…