Press Releases - 2015

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• Community Health Agencies Focus on Quality to Improve Delivery of Public Health Services

• State Mosquito Program Begins Mosquito Testing for West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis Viruses

• State Issues Health Alert about Synthetic Marijuana

• Rabies a big problem in Connecticut during spring (News 8)

• Know Your Family Health History

• Lt. Governor Wyman, Agency Heads Launch Teen Safe Summer Driving Campaign

• Dr. Jewel Mullen to Assume New Post with Federal Department of Health and Human Services

• Connecticut Gets a “B” on March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card

• DPH Announces Long-term Care Background Screening Program

• Errors at Connecticut Hospitals Doubled in 2013 (New Haven Register)

• DPH Announces New Video Series on Private Wells

• Vaccine Sought for Deadly Infection (CT Post)

• Connecticut Department of Public Health and the State Department on Aging Take a Stand to Prevent Older Adult Falls

• WNV Update: Five Human Cases of WNV Reported

• More Ticks Carrying Babesiosis Parasite, Raising Risk of Serious Illness