MILFORD — On Monday, March 23, Milford Town Council entered into what President Doug Ruch called “uncharted waters” with an emergency session held by conference call to vote on measures responding to state Gov. Eric Holcomb’s stay-at-home order issued earlier the same day. The council voted to stop … Read More
WARSAW — The Indiana State Department of Health is closely monitoring an outbreak of the 2019 novel (new) coronavirus or 2019-nCoV. This new respiratory virus was first identified in the city of Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province and continues to infect people in China and around the world, … Read More
NORTH WEBSTER — The North Webster Community Center hosted “Opioid Crisis: A Community Call to Action,” Thursday, Feb. 22, the second in a series of six public gatherings held around Kosciusko County to bring greater community awareness to the opioid epidemic. Thursday’s meeting focused on the epidemic’s effects … Read More
TERESA REED, RN Communicable Disease Nurse, Kosciusko County Health Department WARSAW — “The Kosciusko County Health Department encourages pregnant women, and those women who may soon become pregnant to avoid travel to areas with transmission of the Zika virus. The CDC has interim guidelines about the male partners … Read More
INDIANAPOLIS — State health officials have confirmed the first case of Zika virus in Indiana.
Read More[weaver_youtube gnV_TyslqDE rel=0] Video Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ATLANTA, GA. — The news in this year’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on sexually transmitted diseases is not good. The number of cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the United States increased between 2013 and 2014, … Read More
The recent upsurge in measles cases, with 85 so far reported in seven states, may not be an issue for Indiana. According to Ross Silverman, a professor of health policy and management at IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana has stricter vaccination requirements for children … Read More
