| 6/30/2009 | Department of Public Health Urges Residents to Take Steps to Prevent Lyme Disease |
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As warm weather arrives in Connecticut, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) urges the public to take steps to prevent Lyme disease.
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| 6/29/2009 | Department of Public Health: 6th Connecticut Resident Dies Due to Novel H1N1 Influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s sixth death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The person, a New Haven County resident, was in the 40 – 49 year old age group and had underlying medical conditions. The person died recently after hospitalization. Additional confirmatory testing is being done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| 6/29/2009 | Southbury Resident Recipient of GreenCircle Award |
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Connecticut Department of Public Health manager and Southbury resident, Jeffrey Curran, was recently honored by the Department of Environmental Protection as a recipient of their GreenCircle Award for his excellent work over the last five years on the statewide Laboratory Quality Assurance & Control Workgroup. The Green Circle award recognizes businesses, organizations, and individuals who help make Connecticut "Greener and Cleaner."
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| 6/25/2009 | Free HIV Testing Available on June 27th |
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Local organizations throughout the state funded by the Connecticut Department of Public Health will provide free HIV testing activities on June 27th, National HIV Testing Day (see attached for a listing).
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| 6/23/2009 | Department of Public Health Announces 5th Connecticut Resident Dies Due to Novel H1N1 Influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s fifth death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The person, a Hartford County resident, was in the 50 – 59 year old age group and had underlying medical conditions. The person died recently after hospitalization.
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| 6/19/2009 | Department of Public Health Implements Plan to Limit the Spread of Novel H1N1 Influenza in Youth Camps |
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The Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that it is implementing a plan to limit the spread of novel H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, in youth camps.
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| 6/19/2009 | CT DPH Warns Consumers Not to Eat Nestle Toll House Prepackaged, Refrigerated Cookie Dough |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (CT DPH), in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that causes food borne illness).
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| 6/18/2009 | Department of Public Health announces 4th death due to novel H1N1 influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s fourth death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The person, a Hartford County resident, was in the 40 – 49 year old age group and had underlying medical conditions that increased the risk for serious illness from influenza. The person died recently after hospitalization.
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| 6/17/2009 | Governor Rell: Stimulus Funds to Support Loan Repayment Program for Medical Students |
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Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that dozens of doctors, nurses, dentists and other primary care health professionals who agree to practice in the state’s underserved and rural areas following graduation may be eligible for $50,000 to help repay their student loans through a federal stimulus-funded program.
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| 6/15/2009 | Department of Public Health announces 3rd death due to novel H1N1 influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s third death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The person, a New Haven County resident, was in the 40 to 49 year old age group and had underlying medical conditions that increased the risk for serious illness from influenza. The person died recently after hospitalization.
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| 6/11/2009 | Department of Public Health announces 2nd death due to novel H1N1 influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s second death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The person, a New Haven County resident, was in the 5-10 year old age group and had underlying medical conditions that increased the risk for serious illness from influenza. The child did not attend school this year. The child died recently after hospitalization.
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| 6/4/2009 | DEP, DPH and Milford Health Department Working with Current Owner of Former Milford Cleaning Village to Assess Potential PCE Contamination |
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The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Department of Public Health (DPH) and the city of Milford Health Department are working with the new owner of the property where the former Milford Cleaning Village was located to determine the nature and extent of groundwater contamination moving from that site to an adjoining property that is the location of an apartment complex.
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| 6/3/2009 | Department of Public Health announces first death due to novel H1N1 influenza |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced the state’s first death linked to infection with the novel H1N1 virus. The individual, a New Haven County resident over the age of 50, had underlying risk factors that put this person at higher risk for complications of influenza. The individual died recently after a short hospitalization.
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| 6/3/2009 | Department of Public Health Issues Advisory on Striped Bass and Bluefish Consumption |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health, in coordination with similar actions in six other East Coast states, updated its fish consumption advisory for two popular marine species commonly caught in Long Island Sound.
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| 6/1/2009 | H1N1 Update: Public Health Laboratory confirms 5 new cases of novel H1N1 |
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today confirmed 5 5 new cases of novel H1N1 influenza (swine flu) among Connecticut residents. Positive results for H1N1 flu were confirmed today at the department’s Public Health Laboratory for residents of the following municipalities: Andover (1), Bolton (2), Ridgefield (1), and Waterbury (1).
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| 6/1/2009 | State Mosquito Program Announces Start of Mosquito Testing for West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis Viruses |
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The State of Connecticut Mosquito Management Program is again monitoring mosquitoes for the presence of viruses that can cause illness in people including West Nile virus (WNV) and eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE) in 2009. The mosquito trapping and testing program, coordinated by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES), will begin on June 1st. Reporting test results will begin the following week.
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