WARSAW — The days are starting to warm up as spring approaches, and springtime is tick-time, which means it’s time to start taking preventative measures, especially for those who can’t take those measures themselves; family pets. One tick-borne illness is Lyme disease, which is transmitted by the deer tick. According to Dr. Katie Van Dyke, …read more.

At the June meeting of the Kosciusko County Board of Health, the Kosciusko County Health Department offered a tuberculosis update. “We don’t have any active cases at the present time,” said Bob Weaver of the health department. The last active TB case in the county was successfully treated in March of this year. There are …read more.

The abnormally cold winter we had means ticks will be worse this year than we have seen in quite some time. Because ticks spend the winter deep in the soil that is not usually affected by the cold, they have had more time to breed and that means they are now out in force. Ticks, …read more.