Westport-Weston Health District


NEWS

ABOUT TOWN INTERVIEWS OF WWHD

2020 -
COVID-19 messages from WWHD and other entities involved in the CT drive:
2015 - First alert on mosquito-borne disease (West Nile)

2014 - State  of CT Health Dept. takes over Ebola threat possibility; funding for WWHD cut by State of CT - Towns and grant support only now!

2013:  H7N9

2010:  West Nile 2010











HOMELESSNESS
I had been thinking about this aspect - what about in other States?  ttps://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20200320_housing_homeless/





Screen shot, Mark A.R. Cooper, Part 2

THIS THREE-PART INTERVIEW DESCRIBED WHAT THE "WWHD" - THE FIRST (AND IN OUR OPINION, THE BEST) REGIONAL HEALTH DISTRICT - DOES FOR RESIDENTS!

(The following videos are in Windows Media Player format and may have to be downloaded and opened with a program capable of handling that format)

"About Town" Interview Part 1 - WATCH IT NOW
Introduction to the Westport Weston Health District

"About Town" Interview Part 2 - WATCH IT NOW
All about H1N1!

"About Town" Interview Part 3 - WATCH IT NOW
WWHD Environmental Health Services




Weston health district says take steps to prevent West Nile virus
By Weston Forum on August 28, 2015

Mark A.R. Cooper, Director of Health for the Westport Weston Health District stated on Tuesday, Aug. 25, that West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes trapped in towns around Westport and that it is only a matter of time before mosquitoes become positive for the virus in Westport and Weston.

“It happens every year around this time,” he said...story in full no longer available.





Which came first, the chicken or the WHO?



CHINA:  In 2013, H7N9, chicken to human.  Reported below as 5-30-20 in NYPOST as H5N1???

BIRD FLU REDUX?