San Diego County Public Health Officer

WILD BAT FOUND INSIDE SAFARI PARK TESTS POSITIVE FOR RABIES

Rabies is often transmitted through a bite, cut or abrasion, and uncommonly once saliva meets your eyes, nose or mouth.
 
Although bats are essential to the ecosystem and pollination process, keeping a safe distance is important. 
 
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By Fernanda Lopez Halvorson, County of San Diego Communications Office
 
October 2, 2024 (San Diego, CA) -- County public health officials are looking for people who may have come in contact with a bat found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Monday, Sept. 23 at 2:15 p.m. that later tested positive for rabies. 

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STATE DECLARES WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC

 

June 23, 2014 (San Diego)— “Pertussis activity continues at a high level locally and the California Department of Public Health declared a pertussis epidemic in the state,” Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., San Diego County public health officer has announced.


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