The advisory is primarily for poultry and livestock owners, and emphasizes that current risk for the general public is low.
Legislation in the Maryland General Assembly to ban menthol cigarettes failed in 2023. It passed in the House in 2020 but never received a Senate vote due to COVID-19.
Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services Nilesh Kalyanaraman said weekly respiratory virus-associated hospitalization rate increased ‘due in large part to increasing COVID and flu infections.’
“This is the first fall and winter virus season where vaccines are available for the three viruses responsible for most hospitalizations – COVID-19, RSV, and flu,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
‘We don’t just want to treat workers who are suffering. We want to prevent that harm to all workers in the first place.’
In mid-August, the Maryland Department of Health issued an advisory that the agency had confirmed a rare positive case of locally acquired malaria and…
Despite the recent fatality from the disease, the Department of Health believes that the case does not indicate “any threat of local transmission in Maryland.”
The network may help identify and guide emergency responses to any changes in the COVID pandemic or any other threatening diseases that arise in the future.
“We’re hoping it will be a fairly quiet season, but this is where everyone in public health is still watching closely and holding our breath,” Sen. Clarence Lam said.
During this month, the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration urges Marylanders to get informed on the warning signs of suicide and share resources such as the Connecting to Hope Toolkit to better inform others.