Johnson County Community Health Services is offering a two-hour introductory course that covers the basics of safe food handling, dangers of food-borne illness and personal hygiene. This course is recommended for… Read more »
Tag: health
Ebola patient’s temperature spiked to 103 degrees
(DALLAS AP) — Thomas Eric Duncan’s temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room — a fever that was flagged with an… Read more »
Sick journalist to get blood from Ebola survivor
(OMAHA, Neb., AP) — The first American flown back to the U.S. for treatment of Ebola this summer has donated blood to the most recent one to return from West… Read more »
Kids who had contact with Ebola patient monitored
(DALLAS, AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry says a handful of school-aged children who had contact with a man diagnosed with Ebola are being monitored. Perry says health officials learned… Read more »
Respiratory illness hits hundreds of KC-area kids
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A Kansas City pediatric hospital has treated hundreds of young children for a respiratory illness that has symptoms similar to a common cold that more… Read more »
Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students
By CAROLYN THOMPSON (BUFFALO, N.Y. AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try… Read more »
KC ministers preach gospel of good health
By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Jannette Berkley-Patton remembers a time before tweets, blogs and Facebook posts when many African-Americans got their community news and political updates… Read more »