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County Honors 17 Public Health Champions

| 2:37 PM

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San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency honored 17 people and organizations Monday as Public Health Champions for their work in advancing public health and protecting and promoting the health and safety of San Diegans.

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County Urges Pregnant People to Get Tested, Treated to Protect Unborn from Congenital Syphilis

| 8:44 AM

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Federal, state, and county health officials are urging pregnant people to get blood tests and treatment if needed to keep them from infecting their unborn child with a dangerous, sometimes deadly, and almost completely preventable disease—syphilis.

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Friday is World Tuberculosis Day, Get Tested, Be Safe

| 4:48 PM

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County public health officials are encouraging at-risk San Diegans to get simple blood or skin tests to find out if they may unknowingly have a tuberculosis infection as the world observes World Tuberculosis Day Friday.

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VIDEO: Public Health Workers Make Hepatitis A Vaccines Easy to Access

| 10:14 AM

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County health officials are keeping a close watch over a slight uptick of hepatitis A infection cases among people experiencing homelessness.

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County’s COVID-19 Emergency Declarations to End; Response Continues

| 5:06 PM

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The County’s Board of Supervisors accepted a COVID-19 update Tuesday stating the County’s nearly 3-year-old coronavirus local emergency and local health emergency will end Feb. 28, matching the end of the state of California’s previously announced plan.

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COVID-19 Cases Decline, County Urges People to Get Vaccinated, Boosted

| 5:52 PM

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COVID-19 cases are currently decreasing across San Diego County, but County health officials continue to urge people to get the primary vaccine series and the bivalent boosters because coronavirus is still widespread, and vaccinations protect against serious illness and death.

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Active Tuberculosis Reported at Boys & Girls Club National City

| 3:21 PM

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Students and staff at Boys & Girls Club’s National City location and some Boys & Girl Club summer camp sites may have been exposed to tuberculosis, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) announced today.