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Beginning June 1, 2010, Loup Basin Public Health Department will take reports and collect dead birds of ALL species for West Nile Virus (WNV) testing. Birds to be tested must be dead within 24 hours and in good condition. Reported birds that qualify are collected and submitted for testing by the Veterinary Diagnostic Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. If you find a dead bird, please call Loup Basin Public Health Department at 308-346-5795 or 1-866-522-5795 on Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to report it. People have an extremely low risk of contracting WNV through the touching of dead birds, but please use precautions when handling them. Bare hand contact should be avoided – please wear gloves or use a shovel. If you find a bird in good condition and dead less than 24 hours, it should be double-bagged in plastic bags and frozen immediately. Call us with your report and we will direct you to the collection location.
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Custer County Emergency Management & Region 26 Emergency Management CodeRed |
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Custer County Emergency Management and Region 26 are providing a service to all of the residents in their emergency management regions. This service will provide severe weather warnings sent by telephone as well as alert notifications due to emergencies such as evacuation notices. Sign up by going to www.region26.org or www.sandhillsexpress.com and clicking on the CodeRed logo. Landlines and cell phones can be registered according to the type of information you would like to receive (tornado, floods, severe thunderstorm). For more information click here. |
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Health Department Releases Walk For Wellness Winners |
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259 people participated in the 3rd annual Walk for Wellness Program offered by Loup Basin Public Health Department during the month of June. This physical activity program is for people of all levels of fitness and physical activity. Participants joined the challenge as individuals or as teams.
All individuals who completed and returned their activity logs were entered in a grand prize drawing. Five winners were randomly selected to receive prize packages. The winners are: Rachel Cloran of Farwell, Jamie Lewandowski of Loup City, Caral Ostendorf of Broken Bow, Judy Peterson of Burwell, and Corrie Slagle of Sargent.
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West Nile Virus - First Cases Reported |
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Lincoln—The first cases of West Nile virus have been reported to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. The cases involve two men—one in his fifties from Scotts Bluff County and the other in his forties from Colfax County. The Scotts Bluff County man was hospitalized and released.
So far, Nebraska has had four pools of mosquitoes test positive for the virus—in Red Willow, Douglas, Lincoln and Cherry counties. The virus is likely in other parts of the state, and people should take precautions, said Dr. Annette Bredthauer, the state’s public health veterinarian. "People should take care to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, no matter what part of the state they live in,” she said. “It only takes one bite to infect you.”
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