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OLEAN — A local investigation into a disease that has killed more than 50 people in China proved negative this weekend, but health authorities are kee...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County Health Department staff worked hard during September to follow up on new state vaccination requirements in the county’s sch...

OLEAN — It looks like most public schools in Cattaraugus County will be in significant compliance with new school immunization requirements that did a...

OLEAN — New York’s new state law eliminating the religious exemption to student immunizations could spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e for Cattaraugus County’s 20 pr...

OLEAN — Last week, Cattaraugus County Public Health Director Dr. Kevin Watkins outlined concerns over the latest state Department of Health child obes...

OLEAN — Amish school children in Cattaraugus County will probably have to find another way to school this fall if they currently are transported by sc...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Board of Health has reached out to county lawmakers asking them to consider banning flavored e-liquid nicotine because ...

OLEAN — A wet spring, followed by warm summer weather with yet more than its share of rain is spawning a bumper crop of mosquito larvae that are turni...

OLEAN — The African American Center for Cultural Development has filled the vacancies on its board of directors and is trying to move forward with its...

The annual Robert Wood Johnson and University of Wisconsin County Health Rankings are out and it’s not good news — again — for Cattaraugus County. For...

OLEAN — A Salamanca man who was severely injured late last month in his own home by a raccoon is serving as a reminder that post-exposure rabies vacci...

OLEAN — While the influenza season has been mild so far statewide and in Cattaraugus County, the number of cases has begun to increase. Statewide last...

Cattaraugus County schools’ immunization rates are generally high — with the exception of seven Amish schools where there is a 100 percent religious e...

OLEAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to age 21 drew praise Wednesday from Cattaraugus County Public Heal...

OLEAN — Reports of influenza are on the increase across Cattaraugus County and the rest of New York state. Lynn Moore, county Health Department direct...

Gabriella Mead remembers methamphetamine coming into her life and her hometown of Yorkshire seemingly out of nowhere in late 2017. “You never heard of...

OLEAN — A West Valley woman who credits medical marijuana with ending her use of opioids for chronic pain told the Cattaraugus County Board of Health ...

OLEAN — A Farmersville resident in the proposed footprint of the Alle-Catt Wind Farm expressed her concerns Monday to members of the Cattaraugus Count...