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The County’s new state-of-the-art public health lab in Kearny Mesa is on schedule to open in spring 2025. The $93 million dollar facility will greatly expand the county’s ability to test for infectious diseases, monitor food and water safety, and test for dangerous pathogens.
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County Public Health officials are asking people to throw away organic carrots tied to a nationwide E. coli outbreak. The implicated carrots are organic, whole bagged carrots and baby carrots sold under multiple brands by Grimmway Farms.
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Months of planning and coordination came together Thursday morning as teams of volunteers began interviewing residents living near the Tijuana River Valley about sewage pollution and its effect on their health and well-being.
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San Diego County is become the fifth location in California to report the environmental detection of H5 influenza virus, commonly referred to as bird flu.
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The Board of Supervisors has accepted $2.3 million in California Department of Public Health grant funds to support healthy living education and programming in under-resourced neighborhoods across the region.
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The Tuberculosis Program in County Public Health Services (PHS), in collaboration with Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), is working to notify riders who used certain Trolley Blue and Green lines between February 16, 2023 and August 15, 2023, and bus riders and drivers who used Route 901 between April 22, 2023 and July 15, 2023, that they were potentially exposed and are at risk for tuberculosis (TB) infection.
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Summer is underway and if you plan on travelling, you should follow these eight tips to protect yourself and your loved ones from the Zika virus.
