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California education officials announced that schools will require masks be worn indoors in school settings, aligning with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced Friday the first confirmed death in California due to West Nile virus (WNV). The death occurred in San...
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The Oakland Zoo in Northern California began vaccinating their highest at risk animals last week with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine donated by animal health company,...
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The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency is looking for anybody that may have come into contact with a live bat that tested positive for rabies and...
Bay Area Lyme Foundation today announced results of a study demonstrating that adult Western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) carrying Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease,...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported five people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Duisburg, a rare Salmonella serotype,...
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Los Angeles County health officials have reported one case of the South African variant, B.1.351, and three cases of the Brazilian P.1 variant, both variants of concern.
Authorities...
The faster-spreading B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in the United Kingdom, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is quickly on its way to becoming the dominant variant of the virus in the...
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Los Angeles County health officials identified four cases of suspected wound botulism associated with heroin injection in February 2021.
Two of the cases possibly used the same...
A new strain of the coronavirus in Southern California, first reported last month by Cedars-Sinai, is rapidly spreading across the country and around the world as travelers apparently carry the virus with...
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