Afraid of bedbugs? Don’t be. Just get rid of them.

Our public health website gets thousands of visits every month. Common searches include restaurant workers seeking food safety cards, parents looking up immunization schedules, and families who want to obtain birth or death certificates from our Vital Statistics office. But the most popular search by far, generating at least 20,000 page views a month, is […]

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Pesticides and Pot: What Marijuana Users Should Know

By Jeff Duchin, MD, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County The passage of I-502 in 2012 means that marijuana is now a legal crop in Washington State. Growers of most of the fruit and vegetables we eat routinely use pesticides and other chemicals to reduce or eliminate crop destruction. Because marijuana […]

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