by admin | Oct 9, 2001 | Health / Medicine
The Missouri Department of Health is investigating two reports of individuals from Missouri who could potentially have been exposed to anthrax related to the much publicized American Media Incorporated building in Boca Raton, Florida. One person from the St. Louis...
by admin | Oct 5, 2001 | Health / Medicine
West Nile virus has been identified in five American crows from the St. Louis area. The U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center has notified the Missouri Department of Health that the crows tested positive. To date, no laboratory-confirmed human cases...
by admin | Sep 26, 2001 | Health / Medicine
The State Health Department is taking steps to better protect Missourians from bioterrorism. Health Director Marlene Dempsey says her agency set up a bioterrorism and emergency response unit more than two years ago. She says the job now is to develop a faster response...
by admin | Aug 28, 2001 | Health / Medicine
Missouri’s senior citizens have a new state agency serving them. The Department of Health and Senior Services comes into being today as the Division of Aging moves from the Department of Social Services into the State Health Department. The move is aimed at...
by admin | Aug 9, 2001 | Health / Medicine
Concerns that family planning agencies would stop receiving state money have been alleviated. The worry was requirements in the appropriation law for the Missouri Department of Health would block some family planning clinics from getting state money of they...
