The Ocracoke Health Center is one of those necessary institutions that keeps the island going, but that doesn’t always translate into fiscal health.
Studying Bacteria In Florence’s Wake
North Carolina scientists are gathering data in the wake of Florence in hopes they can get a better count of cases of a serious bacterial infection associated with flooding.
Death, Duty and Yellow Fever
A yellow fever epidemic killed hundreds in Wilmington in 1862, including the doctors and ministers who felt duty bound to tend to the sick.
Poultry Farmers Watch the Sky
Many poultry farmers along the coast and some people with backyard chickens watch the fall migration of wild birds with some trepidation because those birds can carry a deadly avian flu virus.
