Health Tips
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Mosquito-Borne Disease Season
Mosquito-borne diseases in West Virginia are most common in summer and fall. La Crosse encephalitis is the one reported most often. Steps to cut mosquito bites.
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Ticks in West Virginia
Ticks found in West Virginia, the diseases they can spread, when they are most active, and the state and CDC steps to prevent tick bites.
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Monkeypox: What to Know
Summer 2022: how monkeypox spread, its symptoms, the first West Virginia cases, and who could get the JYNNEOS vaccine at the time.
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Please Safety-Check Your Heart Health Before Going Hunting
Heart Healthy Hunting: in West Virginia, one in four calls the DNR gets in hunting season is about a heart or stroke emergency. Steps hunters were told to take.
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Health Officer Reminds Residents to Get a Flu Vaccine
September 2020: the county health officer urged residents to get a flu shot so flu and COVID-19 would not hit the community at the same time.
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Vaping and e-cigarette information for parents
What’s the bottom line on the risks of e-cigarettes for kids, teens and young adults? • The use of e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids, teens, and young adults. • Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to
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Suggestions Offered for Dealing With Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
2016: local health officials gave tips to cut mosquito bites in Kanawha County as Zika made news and West Nile virus turned up in local mosquitoes.