Official insights from Public Health – Seattle & King County staff
Get a recap of a few of the things that happened this month in the second installment of our new monthly comic strip! Learn more about our School Based Health Centers, including our three newest centers. For more about why we don’t recommend washing your chicken: Washing Chicken Spreads Germs We’ve posted information about vaping-related […]
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If you lived through a natural disaster, what would you want others to know about the experience so that they would be better ready to get through something similar? With that question in mind, we talked to real-life survivors of disasters to capture their stories, with the help of Seattle comics artist David Lasky. For […]
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We’re debuting a new comic strip that takes a snapshot of just a few of the thing we’ve been up to lately!
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Lead exposure can harm brain growth in young children, so it’s important for toddlers and preschoolers to be tested for lead if they have any of the risk factors. We’re offering free lead testing at many events this August, and we have a comic strip to explain why testing for lead benefits young children.
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UPDATE (08/14/19): The second of two suspected cases of hepatitis A that we had been tracking has been confirmed by laboratory testing. The current number of King County cases linked to the Washington state outbreak among people living homeless or who use drugs is now four. Any further updates to case counts will be online […]
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If you are exposed to measles, you will need evidence of immunity to measles to be able to attend childcare, school, and work. We want you to know what counts as evidence of measles immunity so you can get your documentation before you are ever exposed to measles.
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