It’s tick season in Missouri, and health care providers are once again reminding people to be mindful of a growing tick-borne illness called Alpha Gal Syndrome. State health leaders say more than 34,000 cases have been reported since 2021. Alpha gal is...
If you think fentanyl is the most dangerous drug Missouri is dealing with right now, health leaders say there’s something even stronger showing up across the state. Nitazenes: a powerful synthetic opioid now being detected statewide, often without users realizing it....
Show Me Today host Bill Pollock recently visited the Grand Glaze Wastewater Treatment Plant in Valley Park, just outside of St. Louis. He is exploring a unique approach to public health, wastewater surveillance. This program has been active since 2020. They collect...
Two Missouri residents have come down with clade One mpox – making them the first known cases in Missouri and the thirteenth and fourteenth cases nationally. Alisa Nelson talks to Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Epidemiologist Nathan Koffarnus, who...
Two Missouri residents have come down with clade I mpox – making them the first known cases in Missouri and the thirteenth and fourteenth cases nationally. The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) says both people are adults and the cases are unrelated to...
