Tag: Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
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Colorado death related to McDonald’s E. coli outbreak was Marine and firefighter
The country’s lone death related to the McDonald’s E. coli outbreak was a Marine and firefighter who loved to hunt and fish and moved to Colorado to be closer to his family, particularly his eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchild. Smith became ill days after eating two Quarter Pounders with slivered onions on two separate…
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Underground Music Showcase trains staff for potential fentanyl overdoses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) is set to bring three fun-filled days of live music to the South Broadway neighborhood, the event organizers know that potential drug overdoses are always a possibility. “Obviously, we do not permit drugs on our premises, but we’re also…
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Colorado DEA seizes more than 570,000 fentanyl pills in one week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division seized around 570,000 fentanyl masked to look like legal prescription pills during a collection of operations in June. During separate operations across a seven-day period, DEA Special Agents and members of multiple state and local law enforcement…
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Colorado announces $20 million initiative for youth mental health
The grants will go to school-community partnerships to promote youth mental health support
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A glimmer of hope in Colorado underscores gravity of suicide prevention work
Mental health advocates meet at national summit in Golden
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Colorado’s low childhood vaccination rates stoke fears of outbreaks
Childhood vaccinations in Denver have fallen below what infectious disease experts believe protects the community for many diseases once considered eradicated or under control, leaving local doctors to worry an outbreak could be inevitable. “I think we have been lucky,” said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior director of infection prevention at UCHealth. “I’ve been monitoring for…
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988 crisis line looks for board of directors applicants
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s suicide and crisis hotline is looking for individuals to join its board. The 988 Crisis Hotline Enterprise, which is funded by a prepaid wireless charge, said it is accepting applications for three director seats, the project announced on Friday. The seven-member, volunteer board governs…
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Infectious disease docs: Respiratory illness season this year unlikely to see COVID-19 spikes of the past
COVID-19 cases are eking up in Colorado, but local infectious disease doctors aren’t worried — yet. The reason? This isn’t 2020. While three years ago infectious disease experts were grappling to understand how the novel coronavirus was transmitted, today health officials have a number of tools in their arsenal: COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, prior infections…
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Colorado’s lost lessons from Spanish flu revisited as COVID-19 pandemic turns 3 years old
Americans haven’t learned the lessons from history
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U.S. Surgeon General visits Children’s Hospital Colorado to talk about youth mental health crisis
For the hundreds of Denver youths who took to the street Friday in protest against gun violence in the wake of the shooting death of 16-year-old Luis Garcia, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy had this message: “My heart goes out to you,” Murthy said. “But also, I am so sorry that as a society…