1. Health Department to close on Fridays
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The Portage County Health Department shut its doors today, and will close nine additional business days this year to confront a financial deficit. Starting today, the department located on South Meridian ...

2. Swine FLu
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H1N1 vaccine available today on campus Residence hall students can get the H1N1 vaccine for free until 4 p.m. today in Eastway. The university received its first shipment of the ...

3. Overweight children and obesity on the rise
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...  A 2008 report from the Portage County Health Commissioner ranked 40 percent of the county’s children overweight and 22 percent obese. John Ferlito, Health Commissioner for Kent, said the problem ...

4. Top 5 Stories of the Week | Feb. 15-19
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... Health Department to cut Fridays Beginning with last Friday, the Portage County Health Department will close the second and fourth Fridays of each month because of financial problems. The health ...

5. Debating the issues and candidates
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Week four: local races and issuesStory by: Daily Kent Stater Editorial Board Election Day 2006 is just one week away. This week, the editorial board presents candidates and issues specific to Portage County. ...

6. County department recommends getting cough booster shot
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Story by: John Oberlin Portage County Health Department is urging adults to get a booster shot for pertussis, better known as whooping cough. This year, the county has recorded eight cases in the area ...

7. Election Guide: Local Issues
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... Portage County Health Department's operating expenses. The property tax levy, which has not been increased since the Eisenhower administration, has failed 24 times at the polls. "The health department ...

8. University confirms first swine flu case
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... reported its first case of the swine flu virus last spring. The Portage County Health Department is now only doing surveillance on the situation, not keeping count of specific cases. "We're not encouraging ...

9. Stop the spread
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... flu just like other areas have." Sarah Hallsky, public health educator at the Portage County Health Department, said the reason this virus is spreading so quickly and easily is because people haven't ...

10. BREAKING NEWS: University rushing to prevent spread of hepatitis A
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... prepare, as well as his co-workers and roommates, said Angela DeJulius, medical director of the Portage County Health Department. As of Sunday afternoon, about 300 immunizations had been given, DeJulius ...

11. Mumps outbreak poses student risk
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Story by: Derek Lenehan Students were warned through a FlashLine message that the Midwest mumps outbreak may have reached Ohio, and anyone who has not received the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination ...

12. Kent Health Department investigates Chipotle after food sickness
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... to be tested to determine the exact cause and type of the illness. The results will probably be completed by the end of next week. Kelly Engelhart, director of Nursing for the Portage County Health ...

13. Portage to vote on health levy but polls in Kent to be closed
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... members who faced the recall. Several issues will be voted on, however, at the county level. One such issue is a levy for the Portage County Health Department. The levy would help fund general operation ...

14. County prepares health officials for possibility of smallpox outbreak
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Medical team ready to help citizens in case of bio-terrorism attackStory by: Amanda Garrett Terrorists infecting people with smallpox may seem like a nightmare scenario, but Portage County health officials ...

15. Health department teams with KSU
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Partnership to help increase awareness about levy's chancesStory by: Juanita Cebulak Unless a Portage County Health Department levy passes in November, it will be forced to layoff four staff members and ...

16. Health department levy failure to affect services
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Story by: Anna Duszkiewicz Issue 5 was on the ballot Tuesday as the Portage County Health Department's 33rd attempt to pass an additional levy, and it failed 37 percent to 63 percent. The repeated failure ...

17. KSU: Hepatitis A risk contained
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... State officials moved quickly to give immune globulin injections to those affected over the holiday weekend. Kelly Engelhart, nursing director of the Portage County Health Department, said the student ...

18. University response to hepatitis outbreak fast, efficient
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... necessary to stop the spread of the virus. More than 500 people were contacted and told they might be at risk, according to Angela DeJulius, medical director of the Portage County Health Department. ...

19. Portage County's flu shot supply not hurt
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... Liverpool, England. The hold up is that Chiron Corporation was FDA approved and had to go into quality control, said Kelly Engelhart, nursing director of Portage County Health Department. Delays related ...

20. Statewide smoking ban begins next week
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... health departments will be using regular health inspections to check for the basics of the law (such as displaying signs and removing ashtrays). The Portage County Health Department will probably be ...