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