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Study: More kids have autism than previously diagnosed
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO - A recent study by Centers for Disease Control found that one in 88 children now have autism. Eric Estepp looks like your typical 14-year-old, but at the age of two, he was diagnosed with autism. Most know it as a developmental disorder...Tags: Science, Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hepatitis B , Medical Specialization
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Endangered tigers born at Safari Park
SAN DIEGO -- Keepers at the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park said Thursday they have begun socializing with a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs that were born there last month. The cubs, who came into the world on March 6, are the 24th and 25th of the critically...
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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: Chickenpox, Pneumonia, Health, Prisons, 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: Cancer, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gynecology, Health, Jerry Brown
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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: Education, Drugs and Medicines, Flu Vaccine, Health, Preventative Medicine
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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: Preventative Medicine, Diseases and Illnesses, Whooping Cough
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County warns bat tested positive for rabies
SAN DIEGO -- A bat that was found the day before Thanksgiving in a Del Cerro condominium complex -- and died two days later -- tested positive for rabies, the county of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency announced Wednesday.
The bat found at...Tags: Rabies, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Diseases and Illnesses
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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, Flu Vaccine, Health, Personal Income, Pharmaceuticals
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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: California, Jerry Brown, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine
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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: Health, Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemicals, Justice System
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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: Flu Vaccine, Health, Pharmaceuticals, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemicals
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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: Health and Medical Professionals, Science, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals
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