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Health care workers in Top of Utah are getting their vaccinations

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 6:38pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Health care workers frequently remind the public to get their influenza vaccinations, but are they practicing what they preach?

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Weber resident tests positive for unusual swine flu strain

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 11:29pm

OGDEN — A Weber County resident has tested positive for an unusual strain of swine flu that has hospitalized three people in the U.S. and is not included in this year’s vaccination.

The virus has been identified in isolated cases across the nation, including in West Virginia, Maine, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The Weber County resident was not hospitalized and is recovering at home.

The virus, A/H3N2v, was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Utah Department of Health. The strain is genetically similar to those which circulate in pigs, said Weber-Morgan Health Department Director Gary House.

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Rabies clinics set at Weber shelter

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:22pm

OGDEN — The Weber County Animal Shelter will have two rabies clinics for pets.

The clinics will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and April 14 at the Weber County Animal Shelter, 1373 W. 750 North.

Rabies shots will cost $14. Other vaccines will also be available. For other vaccine fees, call Ogden Animal Hospital at 801-392-0633.

Owners also can microchip their pets for $15.

For more information about the clinic, call 801-399-8280.

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Weber-Morgan officials to visit schools to immunize against whooping cough

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Weber-Morgan Health Department will visit schools through the end of April to offer sixth-graders the whooping cough vaccine.

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Weber-Morgan Health Department offers immunizations

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 12:04am

Weber-Morgan Health Department offers childhood and adult immunizations Monday through Friday by appointment.

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Clinical health nurse Pat Smith gives Aaron Reich a flu vaccine on Friday at the Davis County Health Department in Clearfield.

Officials encourage flu vaccinations before holidays

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 12:25am

CLEARFIELD — To prevent the flu from spreading faster than holiday cheer, Top of Utah county health officials are encouraging the public to get a flu vaccination before Christmas.

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Vaccinating children helps to prevent chicken pox in infants, study shows

Eryn Brown Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 4:01pm

LOS ANGELES -- Vaccinating children who are more than a year old against varicella, or chicken pox, also provides "tremendous indirect benefits" to young babies, researchers reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

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Free rabies vaccine clinic Saturday

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:12am

OGDEN -- A rabies vaccine clinic for cats and dogs will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday in the gym at the Marshall White Center, 222 28th St. The clinic is part of an Eagle Scout project.

The rabies vaccine is free.

All shots will be administered by a licensed veterinarian.

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Whooping cough outbreak leads to increased vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 6:24am

OGDEN -- The Weber/Morgan Health Department has seen a dramatic increase in immunizations since the recent outbreak of whooping cough at Mount Ogden Junior High School.

There have been seven documented cases of the highly contagious disease in students and employees at the school and two others elsewhere in the Weber-Morgan Health District.

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Whooping cough outbreak raises questions about vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

More than 65 Mount Ogden Junior High School students were sent home for being underimmunized or on immunization exemption -- for personal, religious or medical reasons -- on Oct. 24, when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed.

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Ogden whooping cough outbreak raises issue of vaccinations

Rachel Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 4:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

Over 65 Mount Ogden Junior High students were sent home for being under-immunized or on immunization exemption for personal, religious or medical reasons Oct. 24 when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed. On Friday evening it was announced students on immunization exemption can't come back to school until Nov. 14 because two more cases have been confirmed in the school.

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Whooping cough outbreak sends kids home at Mount Ogden

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:31pm

OGDEN -- Unvaccinated Mount Ogden Junior High students will have a longer-than-expected break from school because another student and a school employee have been confirmed as having whooping cough.

Earlier this week, 65 unimmunized Mount Ogden students were sent home for at least five days after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.

Because of the additional cases, the school is considered to have an outbreak of whooping cough, said Glen Kinney, Weber/Morgan Health Department epidemiologist.

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Whooping cough scare sends 65 Ogden students home

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:16pm

OGDEN -- Sixty-five unimmunized students from Mount Ogden Junior High School were sent home for at least five days Monday morning after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.