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Chickenpox break out at county jail
OTAY MESA, Calif. -- An outbreak of chickenpox at George Bailey Detention Facility has left two inmates quarantined, authorities reported Thursday.
One of the inmates was diagnosed with the highly contagious disease at the Otay Mesa-area county jail...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Prisons, Health, Chickenpox, Landforms
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A Degree In HPV
If you’re like me, you worry about any medicine you give your child let alone inject into their little body – whether it’s been around for a 100 years or it’s the latest cure all. I’m always leery.
So, I certainly...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemicals, Obstetrics, Health and Safety at School
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County promotes vaccinations to prevent flu deaths
FOX 5 San Diego StaffSAN DIEGO -- County health officials urged residents to get vaccinated in advance of flu season as part of a campaign to prevent influenza-related deaths. Last year was the second deadliest on record with 24 flu deaths in San Diego County, health...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Flu Vaccine, Flu, Vaccines, Health
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Deadline looms to get students immunized
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO - Time is running out for students in San Diego County to get their Tdap booster shots, school officials said Tuesday. Due to the passage of Assembly Bill 354 -- California students 7th through 12th grades must have a tetanus, diphtheria and...Tags: Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, Whooping Cough
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A Shot in the Arm for Parents: What you need to know about vaccines!
As we try to enjoy the last few weeks of summer vacation, the school bells are blaring in the distance. If we're not being reminded of how much it's going to cost us to buy a backpack and load it up with the school supplies once actually supplied by...Tags: Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, San Diego, Justice System, Social Sciences
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County's ration of free flu shots cut in half
SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County's allotment of free flu vaccine for low-income adults was cut nearly in half by the state, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced Wednesday.
The county will get 36,690 doses for free distribution from the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Personal Income, Flu Vaccine, Flu, Chemicals
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School vaccine deadline pushed back
FOX 5 San Diego StaffSAN DIEGO - Gov. Jerry Brown Monday signed a San Diego lawmaker's bill giving California schoolchildren a 30-day grace period for getting up-to-date with their whooping cough vaccinations. Beginning July 1, students entering grades 7-12 in California are...Tags: Coughing, Vaccines, Jerry Brown, Health, Diseases and Illnesses
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Whooping cough vaccine now required by law
FOX 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- It's been strongly encouraged for quite some time and now state law is requiring seventh through 12th-grade students to get vaccinated for pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough. "There is an epidemic of pertussis or whooping cough...Tags: Coughing, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemicals, Health, Crime, Law and Justice
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Vaccines sit unused as flu begins to spread
FOX 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- Even as hundreds of people in San Diego battle the flu, thousands of vaccines remain unused. County health officials said 275 people have been diagnosed with the flu in the last six weeks and four have died. Cases are increasing across the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Flu, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemicals, Health
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The Debate is Back: Vaccines & Autism -Is it all a Fraud?
A second major medical publication is calling foul on Dr. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 studying linking the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine to autism. In fact, today the BMJ, a leading medical journal in the U.K. reports Wakefield deliberately faked the...Tags: Boxing, United Kingdom, Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice, Health
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Cold virus used to make cocaine vaccine
LA JOLLA, Calif. – San Diego researchers are using the common cold virus to develop a vaccine against cocaine addiction.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla combined a chemically modified cocaine antigen - - a substance...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities, Chemicals, Common Cold, Immune System
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Second medical journal disses autism paper
FOX 5 San Diego StaffFor the second time in less than a year, another medical journal has panned a well-known autism paper by a british researcher. But those who support his work stand firm in their resolve that he did nothing wrong. "I think when history judges Dr....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Corporate Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Behavioral Conditions
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