The Harrison County Board of Education sent a letter to parents earlier this week warning of an outbreak of flu in schools that has affected up to 15 percent of students in the county. “This is the first year that I can recall that we’ve seen this many children out at one given time with the flu,” Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department Nurse Director Margaret Howe-White said Wednesday.
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Clarksburg-Harrison Health Official: Other states should take note of WV’s opioid struggles
The Executive Director of the Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department said there’s mostly bad news – although some good news-regarding the opioid epidemic in West Virginia and how it relates to the rest of the country. “Unfortunately in Harrison County, we have higher data showing us in the southern coal belt,” Joseph C. Bundy, formerly the President of the West Virginia Association of Local Health Departments, said Thursday.