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In San Diego County, three new cases of whooping cough were reported this week where other children may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, County Health and Human Services Agency officials said today.
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Middle age men are dying by suicide in higher numbers than people in other age groups. Of the 372 suicides reported in the region last year, 44 percent (165) were men between the ages of 40 and 59 years of age.
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The products were sold at Trader Joe’s and may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
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San Diego County has passed the 400 mark for pertussis cases in 2011, but that’s fewer than half the number of cases reported last year at this time, according to County Health and Human Services Agency officials. While new cases are being reported, the number of cases for the past two months is similar to what was seen in 2009.
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That’s the tally since a program began to assist law enforcement with the safe and permanent removal of children from drug-infested homes.
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The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health (DEH) is working with local retailers to remove Organic Pastures raw dairy products from store shelves after five California children, including one in San Diego County, were found to have been infected with a strain of E. coli traced back to the company.
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An estimated 200-gallon sewage spill occured this morning at 5000 State Route 75 at Silver Strand.
