♦ Personal protective measures, such as using insect repellent, wearing longsleeved shirts and long pants while outdoors, and avoiding tick and mosquito habitat, reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases. Vector-borne Diseases in Hennepin County Key Findings Introduction This Epidemiology Update summarizes vector-borne disease cases and trends in Hennepin County. This issue is one in a series of...

Some thirty years ago Walter P. Pitkin wrote a book called Life Begins at Forty. Its sales rocketed to millions and it probably helped to crystallize the attractive image of youthful middle-age which beguiles us from the pages of American magazines, with its sun-tanned greying men with flashing teeth, skilfully concealing girth under colourful, capacious, Hawaian shirts, or those icily elegant,...

Once a month, a group of men in t-shirts, jeans, and baseball caps gather around a long table at the New River Health Clinic. The clinic, a small, one-story yellow clapboard building, is located in the tiny town of Scarbro, nestled in the bituminous hills of southern West Virginia. The members of the Fayette County Black Lung Association greet each other by name while they pour bitter black cof...