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HANCOCK COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH ISSUES STATEMENT ON VACCINE EXEMPTIONS

The Hancock County Board of Health supports West Virginia’s current school immunization requirements. By only permitting valid medical exemptions, West Virginia has been able to keep immunization rates high. This in turn helps to prevent serious childhood diseases such as polio, measles, and whooping cough.…

POULTRY EXHIBITIONS SUSPENDED BY WVDA

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) is suspending all poultry exhibitions, shows, swaps, meets, and sales at flea markets or auction markets in response to the ongoing threat of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). This decision follows recent HPAI confirmations in…

NC LIONS PROVIDE FREE HEALTH SCREENING

Nurse Practitioner Jeanne Cox and Jim Gillespie, both with the New Cumberland Lions Club, provided a diabetes information clinic on Saturday, January 18, at the Davis Pharmacy in New Cumberland.  Fifteen people were provided with finger stick glucose testing, which entered them to win a glucometer…