Press Releases - 2016

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• Sacred Heart U. Students Urged to Take Precautions After Mumps Outbreak on Campus

• State Childhood Lead Program Partners with Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission to Launch Lead Poisoning Prevention Awareness Campaign

• Department of Public Health Conducting Statewide Emergency Preparedness Exercise

• DPH Update on E.coli Outbreak Linked to Oak Leaf Dairy in Lebanon

• As Fishing Season Kicks Off, DPH Touts Benefits of Fish Consumption

• State WIC Program Rolling Out Electronic Benefits Transfer System

• NYC Health Lab Confirms Second Case of Zika in Connecticut

• CDC RELEASES Annual Report on STDs in the U.S.: CT in Top 10 of States with Lowest Rates of STDs

• DPH Commissioner Declares Public Water Supply Emergency for City of Waterbury

• CT DPH Recognizes National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 23-29

• Governor Malloy Receives Strategic Plan on Battling the Opioid Epidemic

• State Mosquito Monitoring Program Concludes for the 2016 Season

• October 21 is National Mammography Day

• Con el pronóstico que el Zika podría infectar 1 de cada 5 Puertorriqueños DPH le recomienda a todos los viajeros a países afectados tomar precauciones

• Governor Malloy Activates State’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol from Thursday Evening Through Saturday Morning