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Posts Tagged ‘disease’

Rare enterovirus infects two Alameda County residents

By Naomi Nishihara | October 6, 2014
Alameda County's patients infected with enterovirus D68 are being treated at Children's Hospital Oakland

Among 14 confirmed cases of a rare respiratory virus in California, two are Alameda County residents

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Legal at last, but strapped for cash, needle exchanges seek federal funding

By Adam Grossberg | October 31, 2011 | 5
A HEPPAC client drops a handful of used syringes into a medical waste bin at a recent deep East Oakland needle exchange.

In places like Oakland, where local authorities treat syringe exchange as an accepted public health practice, groups like HEPPAC no longer face the risk of arrest. Today their challenge is going mainstream, and needle exchange programs are now reaching for the biggest government seal of approval of all—federal funding.

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