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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Conneaut health department studying mosquitos
CONNEAUT — The Conneaut Health Department will start studying the city's mosquito population next week. Conneaut Health Commissioner Nichele Blood said the health department wants to catch mosquitos around the city. 'We set a trap up and it will catch mosquitos for us,' she said. The mosquitos will then be taken to the health department office and frozen for a day, before being sent to an Ohio Department of Health lab for study. Blood said they are primarily interested in learning what species of mosquitos reside in the Conneaut area, and if they carry West Nile Virus. Blood said there have not been any recorded cases of the disease in northeast Ohio recently. According to the ODH website, there have been no cases of the disease in people or mosquitos surveilled across the state so far this year. Blood said the Conneaut Health Department is also monitoring for other mosquito-borne illnesses, including Eastern Equine Encephalitis, St. Louis Encephalitis, La Crosse virus, malaria, zika and yellow fever. 'Most are not common,' she said. The program is being paid for by part of a $8,150 grant the health department received from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The CHD used $5,600 to fund a tire collection at the Conneaut Spring Clean-Up last weekend. Blood said the rest of the grant money is going toward funding the mosquito surveillance and promoting mosquito awareness in Conneaut. Blood said mosquitos thrive in areas where there is standing water, especially unused tires. Blood recommended people take care of items that contain standing water on their properties, including tires, bird baths and toys left outside. People should also make sure to fix screen doors so mosquitos do not get indoors, and make sure to wear mosquito repellent. The CHD will be providing mosquito spray to the public and sending out flyers spreading awareness, Blood said.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost suspends campaign for governor
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. (Photo by) Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the suspension of his gubernatorial campaign in an email to supporters on Friday. Yost said he has enjoyed traveling around the state engaging with Ohioans in his bid to succeed term-limited Governor Mike DeWine, but 'it is also apparent that a steep climb to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff.' 'I do not wish to divide my political party or my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences between my vision and that of my opponent,' Yost wrote, seeming to refer to fellow candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 'I am simply not that important.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who was also the co-leader with Elon Musk of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency, received the Ohio Republican Party's gubernatorial endorsement on May 9. Yost said the state 'has challenges ahead' and Columbus 'needs re-engineering, not demolition.' He warned of a 'comeback attempt' by former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown that could 'unwind all of the good that the last 15 years of Republican leadership has brought.' 'This is a time to protect Ohio, not a time for a family squabble,' Yost wrote. Brown has not formally announced any bid for elected office, but former Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton has already thrown her hat in the ring to vie for the governor's seat as a Democrat. Yost, whose term as state attorney general runs until Jan. 2027, plans to 'continue to fight for Ohio and Ohioans' for the rest of his tenure, but 'I suspect that this is not my final chapter,' he told supporters. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
In Depth on Youngstown health improvement zones
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – WKBN 27 First News Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford sat down with representatives from the Youngstown Health Department to talk about community health improvement zones. Through a state grant, Youngstown started health improvement zones. It was an initiative that came through the Ohio Department of Health and funneled down to the local level. 'We began in November 2022 with this initiative. We received a grant of $450,000 from the Ohio Department of Health to begin the Youngstown Health Improvement Zones. We strategically chose parts of town where each part of town is represented, but we strategically chose location zones throughout the city to place our community health advocates in those zones. So we have four zones. We have four sides of town, east, south, north and west. And each side of town is represented by a community health worker,' said Andrea Bivens, community health advocate supervisor. The program works out of offices on the north, south, east and west sides of town. You can find the locations online. 'Two of our community health workers are active with the Mahoning County Pathways Hubs, so they do home visits with our expecting mothers and those who have had babies,' Bivens said. 'They're in and out of our East Side and our South Side location. The same thing because we do a lot of community outreach. So we ask our community residents to call, and they can come into the center. They're usually there between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dee continues the conversation on the health zones and the services available in tomorrow's segment. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Bird flu has wiped out more than 30 million chickens so far this year
The continued outbreak of bird flu has resulted in the culling of more than 30 million poultry birds across nine states this year. That's about 10 million more than the last quarter of 2024. The loss of egg-laying hens resulted in a national egg shortage, with prices sky high over the first months of the Trump administration. Since then, the cost of a carton of eggs has fallen thanks to decreased demand and falling infections. Last week, the average wholesale price of eggs was $3.13, which is down about $5 from earlier this year. 'You can have all the eggs. You watch, we have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low,' President Donald Trump said last week. But, while the Department of Agriculture, which has led the effort to bring down prices, said in its latest Egg Markets Overview that price levels to the consumer have 'eased considerably,' levels 'remain at levels not yet conducive to more than normal purchases needs.' However, bird flu isn't retreating. Ohio just reported its first outbreak since early March. This year, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed 41 outbreaks in egg-laying flocks across Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. Of the 30.6 million birds affected since January, 19.6 million were in caged systems and 11 million were cage free. Since January 2022, 168,621,877 poultry birds have been affected. The majority of the outbreaks this year have been in Ohio, which reported its first human case of bird flu in February and the first known illness involving the D1.3 strain. There have been 13.5 million birds lost in Ohio flocks. Rapid viral spread there has forced Republican Governor Mike DeWine to tell the Trump administration to hasten its bird-flu response. 'One of the things that is clear is that the federal government is really going to have to accelerate the research that is being done in regard to bird flu,' he said last month. Last month, the Department of Agriculture announced a plan costing $1 billion to address bird flu, including $400 million to help speed the process for farmers to clean and repopulate their farms, which usually takes about six months. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that relief would happen by the summer. That was before news that people assigned to respond to bird flu had been cut in recent Department of Health and Human Services layoffs, and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a strategy to let the virus run wild. Experts said that could only lead to it mutating and put farm workers at greater risk. For now, health authorities assert Americans should not worry. For one thing, there has still been no evidence of human-to-human transmission of bird flu. 'The current risk of bird flu for the general public is low. However, people with close and prolonged, unprotected contact with infected birds and other animals are at greater risk of infection,' the Ohio Department of Health said.
The Independent
21-04-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Bird flu has wiped out more than 30 million chickens so far this year
The continued outbreak of bird flu has resulted in the culling of more than 30 million poultry birds across nine states this year. That's about 10 million more than the last quarter of 2024. The loss of egg-laying hens resulted in a national egg shortage, with prices sky high over the first months of the Trump administration. Since then, the cost of a carton of eggs has fallen thanks to decreased demand and falling infections. Last week, the average wholesale price of eggs was $3.13, which is down about $5 from earlier this year. 'You can have all the eggs. You watch, we have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low,' President Donald Trump said last week. But, while the Department of Agriculture, which has led the effort to bring down prices, said in its latest Egg Markets Overview that price levels to the consumer have 'eased considerably,' levels 'remain at levels not yet conducive to more than normal purchases needs.' However, bird flu isn't retreating. Ohio just reported its first outbreak since early March. This year, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed 41 outbreaks in egg-laying flocks across Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. Of the 30.6 million birds affected since January, 19.6 million were in caged systems and 11 million were cage free. Since January 2022, 168,621,877 poultry birds have been affected. The majority of the outbreaks this year have been in Ohio, which reported its first human case of bird flu in February and the first known illness involving the D1.3 strain. There have been 13.5 million birds lost in Ohio flocks. Rapid viral spread there has forced Republican Governor Mike DeWine to tell the Trump administration to hasten its bird-flu response. 'One of the things that is clear is that the federal government is really going to have to accelerate the research that is being done in regard to bird flu,' he said last month. Last month, the Department of Agriculture announced a plan costing $1 billion to address bird flu, including $400 million to help speed the process for farmers to clean and repopulate their farms, which usually takes about six months. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that relief would happen by the summer. That was before news that people assigned to respond to bird flu had been cut in recent Department of Health and Human Services layoffs, and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a strategy to let the virus run wild. Experts said that could only lead to it mutating and put farm workers at greater risk. For now, health authorities assert Americans should not worry. For one thing, there has still been no evidence of human-to-human transmission of bird flu. 'The current risk of bird flu for the general public is low. However, people with close and prolonged, unprotected contact with infected birds and other animals are at greater risk of infection,' the Ohio Department of Health said.
