Immunize Nevada saves lives by preventing disease and promoting health. Our mission ensures people across Nevada can access vaccines, healthcare, and other resources they need to stay healthy. Our work helps people live longer, healthier lives by protecting them.
Due to extreme heat conditions, locations are open Thursday and Friday, August 20th-21, 2020, as cooling stations for those in need of respite from the heat. Please note sites will have precautionary COVID measures such as screening protocol, social distancing, and mask requirements. Please see PDF flyer for locations and details.
The Nevada COVID -19 Task Force, led by Chairman Jim Murren and President Elaine Wynn, is working on rallying the resources of the private sector to help aid the State’s response, recovery and relief from COVID-19. This Task Force has set up Connecting Kids Nevada where parents can help this effort by filling out a survey to assess current distance learning needs. The Task Force has also set up a Family Support Center you can call at 1-888-616-2476 from Monday-Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. if you do not have Internet connectivity or access to a device. The Family Support Center can connect qualified families to the Internet for free. See FAQ for more information in English and in Spanish.
Most commercially available alcohol-based hand sanitizers or rubs (ABHSR) contain either ethanol or isopropanol as active ingredients. On June 19, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers not to use any hand sanitizer manufactured by “Eskbiochem SA de CV” in Mexico, due to the potential presence of methanol, a “toxic alcohol”, as an active ingredient, which can cause blindness and/or death when absorbed through the skin or when swallowed. Since then, FDA has identified additional ABHSR products that contain methanol and is working with manufacturers and distributors on a voluntary recall of these products (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitzers-methanol).
Washington, DC, May 18, 2020 – The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the voice of the nation’s nearly 3,000 local governmental health departments, is pleased to announce that the Southern Nevada Health District in Nevada is the recipient of the 2020 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award for Excellence in Food Protection at the Local Level. This award is given annually to local environmental health jurisdictions that demonstrate unsurpassed achievement in providing outstanding food protection services to their communities.
The Nevada Eighth Judicial District Court has launched an online guided application for domestic violence temporary protective orders. The online application, available through the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Self Help web-site https://nevada.tylerhost.net/SRL/SRL/Start?legalProcessKey=Domestic_Violence_Temporary_Protective_Order, offers a step-by-step guide to complete a request for a domestic violence temporary protective order from the court. Up-on completion of the form, applicants are instructed to email their completed application directly to the court clerk for pro-cessing, or to e-file it. Upon submission, the applicant will be set for a telephonic hearing. Applicants have until 4 p.m. to submit their completed application for a same-day phone-in hearing; otherwise, they will be set for a hearing on the fol-lowing morning.
Nevada Health Link encourages extra consumer caution due to increased insurance-related fraud during COVID-19 crisis.
Nevada is just one of the many states that has taken steps to minimize the risk and spread of COVID-19 as cases increase across the state and the country. Schools have moved to remote instruction, non-essential businesses are temporarily closed, and most residents are now at home. With public health at the forefront in Nevada and worldwide, accurate, scientifically-based information is needed now more than ever.
What is a novel coronavirus? A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified. The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold.
What should I look for if I or someone in my family visited Wuhan recently? If you or someone in your family has visited the area recently and you started feel sick with respiratory symptoms like fever, cough, or difficulty breathing within 14 days after you returned, contact your health care provider so you can seek medical care. Call your doctor’s office, urgent care, or emergency department before you to so they can make preparations for your arrival and take the necessary precautions to get you tested and to prevent others from being exposed.
As of Dec. 18, 2019, six cases of electronic, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported in Clark County, Nevada. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified vitamin E acetate as a chemical of concern among people with EVALI. The Health District and the CDC recommend these products never be used by youth, young adults, pregnant women, and people who do not currently use tobacco products. People who currently use tobacco products who wish to quit smoking should use FDA-approved therapies. People should not buy any type of e-cigarette or vaping products, particularly those containing THC from informal sources such as friends, or family, or in-person or online dealers. Devices and substances should not be modified or used in ways that are not intended by the manufacturer, including products purchased through retail establishments.
On Nov. 21, 2019, the Southern Nevada District Board of Health approved changes to the Environmental Health Fee Schedule. An itemized listing is available as downloadable PDF.
CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state and local health departments, are investigating a national outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI).
The use of e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids, teens, and young adults. Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to mid-20s...
