Health

The St. Louis Encephalitis Virus and the West Nile Virus have recently been detected in mosquito virus screening samples collected in Lubbock.

The packages are often disguised as jewelry.

There is one certain food that babies under 1-year old should not have, so don't buy the pacifier that is filled with it! Four babies have been hospitalized with botulism because of it.

There have been 19 confirmed cases of Zika in Texas this year.

A salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated cucumbers imported from Mexico by a California company is being blamed for the death of a Texas woman.

Coming up this week is the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women luncheon to learn more about heart disease and it's prevention. About 400 women, all wearing red, usually show up for this event which is targeted to women because more women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer combined.

Now, I’m not talking about all those young whippersnappers out there but after you’ve lived a few years you’ll probably have an opinion on this. What is the happiest year for most people?

You've heard of guide dogs for the blind and search dogs, but now help is on the way for people needing to control their diabetes. Dogs, like Zeke the poodle, are being trained to be Diabetic Alert Dogs.

You may want to get rid of weeds by using your weedeater, but that doesn't really get rid of them--just makes them shorter. Or you may want to dig them up. That works but it's also HARD work. Or, you may want to try a weed killer spray. A lot of people use Montsanto's Roundup. But this year according to this gardening site, the company can no longer call the spray "biodegradable" and "environmentally friendly".

Coming up Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. is "Girl Talk", an event offered at Covenant Health System that could help clear some questions up for girls between the ages of 10-13.

United Blood Services of Lubbock wants to say thank you to all our life saving donors. Les and staff will be passing along 5 dollars in movie money to each donor every day this week. The movie money can be used towards purchase of tickets or an upgrade on that bucket of popcorn.