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Oneida County has launched a new downloadable online tool that will help residents create their own personal preparedness plan County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today. The Ready Oneida County Family Preparedness Planner is a short, interactive document that residents can download and complete by filling out important information including meeting places, key contacts and a kit checklist to track preparedness items as you build your emergency kit.

The Oneida County Health Department announced today that the Village of Remsen won the 2014 Best Tasting Drinking Water Taste Test Contest. The contest was held at the Boonville-Oneida County Fair on Tuesday July 23, 2014. The contest promotes awareness of the value of public drinking water to the public. The contest has been held throughout New York State for the past 20 years. Its goal is to enable the general public to become aware of the value and the quality of public tap water through a non-scientific and publicly involved competition.

State DOH: “Possible Exposure at Albany Medical Center"
The Oneida County Health Department is alerting area health care providers about possible exposure to measles that may have occurred at Albany Medical Center in the past week, Director of Health Phyllis D. Ellis announced today.

OCHD Official: Flu Season Peaks in February-Still Time to Get Vaccine
The Director of Clinic Services for the Oneida County Health Department announced today that the flu vaccine will be administered at their clinics at a cost of only 10-dollars for the remainder of the flu season or until present supplies are exhausted. The health department had charged those without acceptable insurance or Medicare Part B 25-dollars for the vaccine since the beginning of the flu season in October.

While the number of confirmed cases of influenza in Oneida County is small compared to last year’s, there has been a spike locally during the holiday period and flu remains widespread throughout the State, health department officials said today.
“There have been 95 new cases of flu reported in just the past few days, bringing the total number of cases to date to 134 in Oneida County,” Phyllis D. Ellis, Director of Health said. She added, “On this date last year there were more than 1500 confirmed cases of the flu in Oneida County.”

With frigid weather forecast for our area, the Oneida County Health Department has issued some recommendations for avoiding health and safety problems during periods of prolonged cold temperatures.