So what happens when Johnny the third-grader suddenly has a temperature while at school this fall?

Kosciusko County Health officials learned on Tuesday of the third death in the county due to COVID-19.

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.

Communicable Disease Nurse Teresa Reed, RN, with the Kosciusko County Health Department, confirmed today that there is one case of tuberculosis in the county, but the case is no longer contagious. While a case is contagious, the infected individual is isolated to their home. Once testing confirms they are not contagious, the patient is allowed …read more.

On Wednesday afternoon, 78 students went home from school with letters noting they needed to receive a Varicella vaccine in the wake of a Chicken Pox outbreak at Milford School. It was that day when Milford School officials received confirmation they had five cases of the Chicken Pox at the school. The announcement also brought …read more.