MORGANTOWN -- Unless a proposed cannabis dispensary wants to open up within 1,000 feet of a school or daycare center, the Monongalia County Board of Health pretty much has to approve it. It did just that last week, signing off on a new dispensary location for 11 Hartman Run road, which ...
MORGANTOWN -- According to Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins, West Virginia is one of very few states - regardless of political leanings - that hasn’t seen a significant reduction in kindergarten vaccination rates over the last four years. He fears that’s about to ...
MORGANTOWN -- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, more commonly known as H5N1 or bird flu, claimed its first human victim in the United States earlier this month. In the past year, it’s resulted in the deaths of some 145 million birds - largely commercial poultry, most of which were ...
MORGANTOWN — “Just looking at the graph, it’s pretty shocking. We’ve been saying all along that if COVID never came around, we’d be focused on Lyme disease. New cases are growing at such a rate.” That’s what regional epidemiologist Lucas Moore told The Dominion Post in ...
MORGANTOWN — There were concerns, Dr. Lee Smith admitted Wednesday to the Monongalia County Commission. As the county health officer, he’d spent a decade building the Monongalia County Health Department into the state’s largest in terms of employees, people served, and services ...
MORGANTOWN -- Lee Smith had it all worked out. After a career in emergency medicine, the good doctor figured he’d throttle down, coast into retirement in a more leisurely role. So, he signed on to run the Monongalia County Health Department. Five years, he told ...