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County Vector Control crews plan to hand-spray a neighborhood in the Mt. Hope area this week to keep mosquitoes from potentially spreading the dengue virus after mosquitoes were found near a person who contracted dengue outside the U.S.
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ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, is a medical procedure for critical care patients with life-threatening heart or lung failure. Last July, the County launched a new pilot program that uses ECMO in a new way. It is now saving the lives of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital and who would have otherwise died.
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Pride festival goers can get Mpox vaccines, chill out in the senior cool zone and wave hello to County Library workers as they are honored as grand marshals during the annual Pride Parade this weekend.
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The County of San Diego and partner agencies broke ground on the region’s seventh Crisis Stabilization Unit Thursday. The “CSUs” are designed to give many people who are in the midst of a behavioral health crisis a calm and better place to become stable and recover than emergency rooms, hospitals or jails.
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The County wants behavioral healthcare to be more accessible to everyone. Help for people needing crisis services is being offered at Crisis Stabilization Units (CSU) throughout the region so people can connect to care quickly and right in their own communities.
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The County’s Tuberculosis Control Program and Edgemoor Skilled Nursing Facility are working to notify residents, employees, contractors, and visitors potentially exposed to tuberculosis (TB) between Dec. 13, 2023 to July 8, 2024.
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The County’s Tuberculosis Program is working in close collaboration with Father Joe’s Villages to notify residents, employees, and volunteers potentially exposed to tuberculosis (TB) at the Paul Mirabile Center (PMC) at Father Joe’s Villages, at 1501 Imperial Ave., San Diego, CA, 92101.
