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News Clips

Vacant site selected for disease center (News-Sentinel, 3/20/09)
Health officials have selected a vacant building just east of downtown as the site of a new center to treat infectious diseases. But the cost, source of the money and the clinic's long-term usefulness remained unclear Thursday despite Allen County...

Mosquito spraying no longer optional (News-Sentinel, 3/17/09)
Allen County residents no longer have the option of being on a no-spray list with Vector Control. Board of Health members unanimously voted Monday night to do away with the option to allow people to decline having their property sprayed for West Nile...

Opt-outs end for mosquito spraying (Journal Gazette, 3/17/09)
Trucks spraying pesticide in Allen County where mosquitoes have tested positive for West Nile virus or another mosquito-borne disease will no longer honor residents request not to spray in front of their homes. [full article] ...