Viruses

Missouri health officials have issued a bulletin about the current Hantavirus scare, but there really is no reason to be alarmed at this point.

A Missouri adult who waterskied at Lake of the Ozarks now has a confirmed brain-eating amoeba infection.

This is one of those warnings from the Missouri Department of Health that you hope is precautionary and not an indication of something that will become a widespread issue in the state. A new bulletin has been issued about a deadly mosquito-borne virus of which there is no cure.

I have a lot of friends in Missouri and I have a lot of friends in Missouri that are sick right now. That anecdotal observation agrees with a report from federal health agencies which show Missouri is getting hammered by 3 different flu variants right now.