The Putnam County Health Department today announced it has successfully completed a review process to maintain national accreditation status through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB).
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LIMA (WLIO) - According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), violence is a public health problem that has the potential of …
The organization is urging blood and platelet donors to give now in order to fight against a severe shortage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is predicting a serious spread of flu this year and is already reporting spikes in cases in several states. Allen County Public Health is also urging residents to practice more caution in order to avoid a serious spread in the local area.
They have been going over data from studies of vaccinated individuals and the rate of COVID-19 cases among them. Health officials say the vaccine is working to keep most breakthrough cases at a lesser severity and say the best protection is the vaccine. While numbers of cases do continue to rise Allen County Public Health is preparing to follow CDC guidelines about providing the booster shot.
The CDC says that since April 2021, there have been more than a thousand reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the United States of cases of inflammation of the heart, called myocarditis and pericarditis. The reported cases occur after receiving a mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination (such as Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna).
An E. Coli outbreak is stretching across ten states and Ohio is one of them. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised red flags about ground beef. Authorities say over 150 people have tested positive for the bacterial infection. The CDC says at this time, quote: "No common supplier, distributor, or brand of ground beef has been identified".
Although preventable, the number of sexually-transmitted diseases are on the rise across the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.