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LOCAL HEADLINES
Health unit post-merger check-up: Lakelands Public Health delves into priorities
Eighteen months after the official voluntary merger that created Lakelands Public Health, the region’s top public health doc says the priorities and challenges ahead are still many as several crises continue to intersect and public health has a major role to play.
Sarah Hyatt
Sep 28
‘An exceptional asset to our team’: New associate medical officer of health
Lakelands Public Health is growing with the appointment of Dr. Maxwell Tran as the health unit’s new associate medical officer of health.
Grant Haven Media Staff
Sep 26
Lakelands Public Health, community partners offer reduced-cost rabies clinics
Lakelands Public Health is gearing up for its fall campaign to offer reduced-cost rabies vaccination clinics for canine and feline friends in the region.
Lakelands Public Health reports first laboratory-confirmed case of Influenza A
The local health unit has put out an earlier-than-normal call for the coming respiratory season after confirmation of the first influenza case for 2026-27.
Sarah Hyatt
Sep 18
Health unit encourages residents to protect themselves against mosquito bites
Lakelands Public Health is reminding residents about the importance of emptying wheelbarrows and other items that hold standing water where mosquitoes like to breed after three mosquito pools tested positive for the West Nile virus in the region.
Natalie Hamilton
Sep 9
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