Oct. 1 is Texas Influenza Awareness Day
With flu season approaching and COVID-19 still spreading in Texas, now is the best time to get a flu shot. The Texas Department of State Health Services encourages everyone to protect themselves, their families...

The Texas Department of State Health Services has informed cities, counties and health care facilities that the state will resume filling requests for medical surge staff that cannot be met locally. DSHS is working with staffing agencies that are...

The Texas Department of State Health Services will award $10 million to local organizations working to promote COVID-19 vaccinations in Texas. The Texas Vaccine Outreach and Education Grant program will provide grants of $50,000 to$150,000 to a wide...

Public health officials have confirmed the state’s first case of illness caused by West Nile virus in 2021.The disease case, reported by Dallas County Health and Human Services, occurred in a resident of Dallas County.

West Nile virus is transmitted...

The Texas Department of State Health Services and its partners are again offering free health clinics at locations around South Texas as a way to prepare for disasters and public health emergencies. After a modified Operation Lone Star last year due...

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise in Texas, the Texas Department of State Health Services is again hitting the road to promote vaccination. DSHS will hold 18 pop-up events at Walmart locations across the state to talk with parents...

The Texas Department of State Health Services is working with Dallas County Health and Human Services and the CDC to investigate a single case of monkeypox virus infection in a Dallas County resident who recently returned from Nigeria. The patient is...

The Texas Department of State Health Services today adds testing for spinal muscular atrophy to the health screening done for every baby born in Texas. About 1 in 10,000babies are affected by SMA, and this new screening can detect about 95 percent of...