Tag: health
Marion County is continuing to see an increase in cases of hepatitis A locally and is encouraging residents to get vaccinated for the virus. To help, the Department of Health in Marion County is holding its second drive-through hepatitis...
Ocala Fire Rescue (OFR) and the Department of Health in Marion County (DoHMC) have partnered to combat the hepatitis A outbreak affecting our community. Encouraging vaccination against the highly contagious illness – which has affected more than 138 individuals...
Fort McCoy First Baptist Church and FreeD.O.M. Clinic USA present free dental and vision event
The free clinic will be held on Saturday, September 14. Free tickets will be handed out the day before the event, on Friday, September 13,...
Ocala -- Brick City Southern Kitchen & Whiskey Bar, located at 10 South Magnolia Avenue, was immediately shut down after an emergency order was issued on August 20, following a complaint inspection. The restaurant was allowed to reopen within...
Florida -- On Sunday, August 18, just before midnight, a deputy responded to a home on Orday Road in Sebring after a 911 hang-up.
The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office says hang-ups are common.
However, none of them make the cut when...
Marion County -- Recently, there has been outrage on social media aimed toward the Florida Department of Health in Marion County for providing press releases to the media regarding restaurant employees who were infected with hepatitis A.
Ocala Post spoke...
OCALA, Fla.—The Florida Department of Health in Marion County (DOH-Marion) has identified a positive case of hepatitis A in a food service worker in Ocala.
DOH-Marion conducted an epidemiological investigation and today determined an individual who worked at Charlie Horse...
Marion County -- The Florida Department of Health in Marion County will be offering free rapid HIV testing on National HIV Testing Day, Thursday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Walgreen’s, located at 807 E. Silver...
Due to receiving a number of adverse event reports, Cargill is expanding the scope of recall of select Southern States® feed due to aflatoxin levels that exceed FDA’s action levels.
These reports are currently being investigated to determine if they...
Ocala, Florida -- The Florida Department of Health in Marion County has identified a case of hepatitis A in a food service worker in Ocala. Per the department’s epidemiological
investigation, the affected individual worked at Zaxby’s, located at 6033 SW Highway...
The FDA is alerting consumers to possible hepatitis A contamination of Bauer’s Candies Modjeskas, an individually wrapped marshmallow candy dipped in chocolate or caramel. We are advising consumers not to eat and to throw away any Bauer’s Candies Chocolate...
Ocala -- The Florida Department of Health in Marion County’s Mobile Health Unit has scheduled its locations for January and February.
The bus will provide immunizations and other department services on the below dates at the listed locations:
Jan. 4:...
A Chewy employee, Robert Pete, 49, who died while operating a stand-up forklift, may have died from a heart attack.
A report released by the Ocala Police Department states that "pending final determination from the Medical Examiner, this appears to...
Kimberly-Clark announced a voluntary product recall of its U by Kotex® Sleek® Tampons, Regular Absorbency, sold throughout the United States and Canada for a quality-related defect that could impact the performance of this product.
The recall is limited to specific...
Many parents in Marion County have expressed concern about children recently being sent home from school due to having lice.
The Marion County School Board told Ocala Post that they have lice cases throughout the district on a daily basis.
The...
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious condition, which is typically seen in children. It affects the nervous system, specifically the area of the spinal cord called gray matter, which causes the muscles and reflexes in the...
Silver Springs -- MJ’s Pizza And Winghouse, located at 5195 E Silver Springs Boulevard, was inspected following a consumer complaint.
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation visited the establishment on September 25.
According to the inspector's report, food and a...
Pasta Faire restaurant in Belleview received several high priority violations after they were visited by health inspectors.
Many of the violations were repeat violations and considered potentially hazardous to consumers.
The violations are as follows:
Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried -...
Parents in Marion County are not likely to forget the pain inflicted on children at the hands of pediatric dentists Michael and Rebecca Tarver.
Ocala Post recently received several e-mails from parents who are concerned that the former owner of...
Marion County -- Marion County remains under a mosquito-borne illness advisory due to eastern equine encephalitis activity.
In an August press release, Florida Department of Health Operations director Craig Ackerman, said, “The risk of disease being spread from mosquitoes to...
