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DATES TO REMEMBER         January  28 – Brown County Youth Fair Workday 8am – 12pm at the Youth Fair Barns 30 – 4-H FCH Coalition Meeting 5:00pm at the Extension Office February  6 – 4-H Photography Workshop – Using Your Phone 4:00pm at the Extension Office 20 – Extension Office Closed for President's Day SUCCESSFUL BROWN COUNTY YOUTH FAIR Brown County Youth Fair was a big success this year and Brown County 4-H would like to thank the Brown County Youth Fair Association for organizing and supporting the youth. We would like to also thank all the donors and sponsors of the 2023 Premium Sale. As agents, we are proud of all the 4-H members who participated and would like to congratulate everyone. For those members that will be participating in the major livestock shows, GOOD LUCK!!! BROWN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION WORKDAYS Workdays are...

En español | We're asking the Social Security Administration (SSA) to put customer service on the front burner now that Congress and the Biden administration have approved a $785 million budget increase for the agency. AARP members sent Congress more than 200,000 emails last year urging it to approve more funding for customer service issues amid historically high wait times and a backlog in disability claims . The agency primarily blamed the delays on years of understaffing and insufficient funds. The problem has picked up steam since last spring, when the SSA reopened field offices that had been shut down for two years during the pandemic. Customers complained of long lines at offices, and busy signals and dropped calls when trying to get through on the national toll-free number.  We wrote to SSA Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi last week, urging her to make customer service a top priority in the operating plan the agency is required to submit to Congress next mon...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — FOX13 is continuing to investigate allegations into a Memphis nursing home trusted to care for our most vulnerable neighbors. After FOX13 interviewed a woman who said she believed a nursing home was responsible for her uncle's death, more families came forward to talk about their experiences with the same facility. ORIGINAL REPORT: Memphis nursing home under investigation for allegations of elder abuse We first told you about Monique Bethany, who said she believes a nursing home was responsible for her uncle Jerome Powell's death. She said she was told by first responders that employees at the Signature HealthCare of Primacy showed no urgency in getting her uncle to the hospital after he was found unconscious. A police report also says officers noticed the man seemed thin and was having trouble breathing. Since FOX13 reported on that story, several other families across the Mid-South have contacted our newsroom with similar stories about the same nursing home. ...

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Investigations into several past outbreaks were discussed at a recent event on infectious diseases. Presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) covered Salmonella, Listeria, Clostridium Perfringens, and botulism outbreaks. ESCAIDE was held in November in Stockholm, Sweden, and remotely. It was organized by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). In October 2021, the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) detected a nationwide outbreak of people infected with identical monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium strains. Forty illnesses with onset during October were reported from eight regions with an age range of 5 to 70 years old. More women than men were sick. One region reported a cluster of nine cases linked to a preschool. In a case-case study, researchers compared exposures of 24 outbreak patients to 47 other salmonellosis patients, reported during mid-September-November 2019 to 20...

This story originally appeared on Billy Penn, and is a part of the Every Voice, Every Vote series. What questions do you have about the 2023 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? Let us know. Every person running to be Philly's next mayor talks about doing better to solve the city's gun violence epidemic. Which of their plans make the most sense? To help voters answer that question, Billy Penn and WHYY are partnering with the CeaseFirePA Education Fund to host the " 100th Mayor: Restoring Safety Forum " in early March. WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor ...

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