Wood County Health Department’s New Mobile Health Center

Wood County Health Department’s New Mobile Health Center Wood County Health Department recently added a new way of offering health screens and other services in our community, a mobile health center. Purchased using funding from the Ohio Department of Health ELC Cooperative Agreement CK-19-1904, our health center will soon offer health screens including blood pressure, […]

Avian Influenza Detected in Ohio Dairy Herd

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) received confirmation from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) of the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a dairy cattle herd in Wood County. This is the first case of HPAI in a livestock operation in Ohio. The dairy operation in Wood […]

Health Education RFP Released

The Wood County Health Department (WCHD) is excited to announce the release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) aimed at developing comprehensive health education materials focused on preventing and mitigating the transmission of infectious diseases, particularly COVID-19, within our community. We invite contractors to submit proposals for any or all of the following three requests […]

Older Adults Now Able to Receive Additional Dose of Updated COVID-19 Vaccine

An updated COVID-19 vaccine was released in September 2023. In February 2024, the CDC endorsed the recommendation for adults ages 65 years and older to receive an additional updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine dose. The recommendation acknowledges the increased risk of severe disease from COVID-19 in older adults, along with the currently available data on vaccine […]