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Outreach in Border Region Enhances WIC Enrollment

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:05-07:00October 10th, 2013|Prevention|

The Arizona WIC Program is airing outreach ads in border counties, to ensure WIC clients know about the availability of WIC services in their communities. Several local WIC agencies in the border region are undertaking special actions to promote WIC along with making healthy eating and active living the easy choice in their communities. The [...]

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AZ Smallpox Outbreak

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:19-07:00February 6th, 2012|Prevention|

Smallpox broke out in southeast Arizona almost exactly 100 years ago last week (co-incident with the Statehood activities). The first cases were in Tucson and Douglas with a few dozen cases and several deaths… and there were a few additional cases in Nogales and Globe. Of course, all the cases were among folks that hadn’t been vaccinated. [...]