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Houston Health Department confirms second monkeypox case
Statement from City departments regarding Sterlingshire Apartments
Houston Health Department confirms Houston's first monkeypox case
The Houston Health Department encourages people to stay safe as the National Weather Service warns of hot weather this week.
Houston City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to add electronic smoking devices to the city’s existing smoking ordinance, originally approved in 2007.
A Houston Health Department program that helps remove barriers to learning through free preventative dental services is back at full capacity. The Project Saving Smiles mission on March 7-11 was the largest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the most comprehensive survey of the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population, is coming once again to Houston/Harris County, starting January 7, 2022.
A large red poinsettia AIDS ribbon, brief speeches by four people living with HIV or AIDS and a candlelight vigil will highlight a program sponsored by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) to observe World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
City and county health officials are following up on the detection by air sensors of low levels of parts of the bacterium that causes tularemia, a treatable illness occasionally found in humans but more common in rabbits and rodents.
The Latino HIV Task Force, a group of Houston health agencies, will offer free HIV testing October 15 as part of the first National Latino AIDS Awareness Day.