Missoula City-County Health Department

Director of Environmental Health Shannon Therriault provides details.

Without more people getting the flu vaccine, when the flu season reaches its apex in February, according to Pam Whitney, ‘we’ll see numbers higher than we’ve ever seen’.

The Missoula City-County Health Department issued a press release stating that the first presumptive case of MPX or Monkeypox has been reported in Missoula County.

With air quality at the ‘Unhealthy’ stage in Missoula and ‘Very Unhealthy’ south of Missoula into Hamilton, the Missoula City-County Health Department is recommending that school children be kept inside.

Normal and necessary childhood vaccinations have dropped ‘significantly’, according to local health officials.

KGVO spoke to Leah Fitch-Brody, Substance Use Prevention Coordinator at the Missoula City County Health Department about the report on Friday.

The Missoula City-County Health Department issued a press release on Thursday announcing that they will be winding down their COVID-19 testing services.

According to the Missoula City County Health Department, nearly 2000 children ages 5 to 11 already have appointments to receive the child dose of the COVID vaccine.

At a press conference in Butte on Thursday, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte shared the news that monoclonal antibody treatments are now available in 41 out of 56 counties in the state, for those that have requested the treatments.