Kenai Public Health Center

Monkeypox is a viral disease that spreads from close, often skin-to-skin contact. It’s seeing an outbreak globally — though risk level is still considered low in Alaska, where there are only three reported cases to date.

Kenai Public Health Nurse Tami Marsters says reported numbers don’t even begin to capture the COVID situation in the borough, because these days, so much COVID is detected through at-home tests, which are not reported to the state or included in published counts

By Thanksgiving last year, the Kenai Peninsula was reporting dozens of new coronavirus cases every day.We’re hardly out of the woods yet. But those…

With the confirmation of Alaska’s first positive coronavirus case in Anchorage on Thursday, efforts to prevent the spread of the virus on the Kenai…

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is raising the alarm over the on-going measles outbreak in Oregon and Washington State.Saying those…

Opioids like heroin affect the part of the brain that regulates breathing. An overdose depresses respiration to dangerous levels. Minutes, and even…