The same food supply chain that lets restaurants serve nearly identical produce in Missouri, Michigan or California can also make it remarkably difficult to figure out where contamination began when Americans get sick. As cyclospora cases climb across Missouri and Kansas, public health investigators are working backward through a supply chain that can stretch thousands […]
Explosive diarrhea has been spreading across the US, and the parasite that causes the disease has already sickened thousands – and counting.
For the first time since the respiratory season began on Sept. 29, the number of reported flu cases in Jefferson County has jumped into the tr…
For the third consecutive week, Jefferson County is in the yellow level on the Jefferson County Health Department’s COVID-19 warning system. Y…
Steve Blaha of the Hillsboro area was one of the first to be hospitalized with COVID-19 in Jefferson County.
I was minding my own business, sitting in a middle-row seat, enjoying my daughter’s high school choir performance.