- Residents, Businesses Roles in "Fight the Bite" Prevention Efforts Needed This Year (posted 7/21/10)
 - Eleven human cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed thus far in Arizona. One person in Maricopa
County has died from the disease.
There are no human cases of West Nile virus within Pima County at this time; however, one chicken has
tested positive. While no mosquito specimens have tested positive for the virus, trapping and collecting are at
about half of the rate of previous years.
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 Receive Trusted, Up-To-Date Neighborhood Public Safety and Community Information directly from our department by text message and email. No Cost, simple, reliable. Register now. - Health Department Offering Back to School Shots (posted 7/8/10)
- Pima County Health Department will be providing back to school immunizations for Pima County school age children this August.
Pima County Back to School Immunization Schedule
Community Parter: El Rio Back to School Immunization Schedule
- Pima Animal Care Center's $10 for 10,000 Campaign A Success (posted 7/09/10)
 - The Pima Animal Care Center wishes to extend a huge thank you to Pima County residents for helping make their $10 for 10,000 campaign a great success.
By the end of the 2009-2010 fiscal year we had saved 10,161 animals compared to almost 9,000 last fiscal year. This is a great achievement considering all overall services provided by the Center.
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- New Fact Sheets Provided by Arizona Department of Health Services (posted 7/01/10)
 - Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease (BTCD) has produced 12 new fact sheets on Asthma, Breast Cancer, Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases (CLRD), Diabetes, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Stroke and Tobacco at www.tobaccofreearizona.com/resources
- Pima County Health Department Awarded $15.75 Million as Part of Recovery Act Prevention and Wellness Initiative, Communities Putting Prevention to Work (posted 3/19/10)
- The Pima County Health Department was awarded a grant of $15.75 Million to promote the adoption of healthy eating and active lifestyles as a way to combat obesity in Pima County.
This grant award is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative to support public health efforts that reduce obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition to combat chronic diseases and promote health.
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