Will this past weekend in north-central West Virginia be the one that turns out to be a super-spreader for COVID? That’s what Ed Abbott of the Monongalia County Health Department was wondering last week. After all, said Abbott, who is the department’s program manager for infection ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Health Department has spent 50 years growing into and beyond its two-story brick home at 453 Van Voorhis Road. The end of that run is drawing near. “This building has been here for 50 years. My goal is to get a state-of-the-art facility ...
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 — Since September 2018, the Monongalia County Health Department’s mobile dental clinic known as Smile Express has delivered preventative dental care to more than 1,700 students in 63 schools across six counties. Counting repeat customers, Smile Express Coordinator ...
MORGANTOWN -- A little over a month ago, a Monongalia County resident developed the first confirmed case of measles in West Virginia since 2009. The response from the Monongalia County Health Department was immediate and overwhelming — and expensive. Monongalia County ...
MORGANTOWN -- Throughout his decade-long tenure as Monongalia County’s health officer, Dr. Lee Smith has consistently excoriated Charleston over its attitude toward and support for the state’s local health departments. Fitting then that the issue came up Thursday, during Smith’s ...