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Eight San Diego County Cases Linked to Hepatitis A Outbreak

| 1:56 PM

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The number of San Diego County Hepatitis A cases associated with a recall of Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend of frozen berries sold through Costco has grown to eight, according to officials with the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA).

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Got Five Minutes to Save a Life?

| 2:57 PM

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You might be able to save a life with hands-only CPR. In less than five minutes – at nearly 30 locations across San Diego County – you can learn hands-only CPR as part of the annual “Sidewalk CPR” day Tuesday, June 4.

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VIDEO: The Vector Collectors

| 4:00 AM

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Squirrels, mice, ticks, fleas, and mosquitos. What do they have in common? The County’s Vector Control Program catches all of these animals to test for nasty diseases like West Nile Virus and plague. Without this trapping and testing, we’d never know if we had a disease outbreak in the county.