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		<title>Vermont &#124; Portable hospitals enhance statewide public health response capabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington &#124; 1 Feb 2012 A new 20-bed inflatable portable hospital and a mass care trailer stockpiled with medical and mass care supplies purchased by the Vermont Department of Health was on display Jan. 30 and 31 at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Jct. Hospital and public health responders attended a two-day training session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Starting Over Strong Vermont &#8211; healing emotional wounds from the 2011 flooding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington VT &#124; 19 Jan 2012 Many Vermonters were impacted by Tropical Storm Irene when it pounded most of Vermont with up to 12 inches of rain this past August. The statewide flooding destroyed homes, farms, and businesses, closed roads, and left much property in ruin. For many, the storm also inflicted devastating emotional trauma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Flu season begins with first confirmed case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington &#124; The Vermont Department of Health Laboratory has confirmed the first case of influenza this season in a person from Windsor County. “Although the first official case is from southern Vermont, flu is inevitable this time of year and we expect to see flu in every area of the state. This serves as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Case of salmonella traced to recalled ground beef</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington &#124; The Vermont Department of Health is advising of a multi-state outbreak of foodborne illness, including one case in Vermont, traced to ground beef sold at Hannaford grocery. A Vermonter was one of 14 people who ate ground beef contaminated with Salmonella Typhimurium purchased at a Hannaford store between Oct. 12 and Nov. 20. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Health dept reports rise in pertussis cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington VT &#124; The Vermont Department of Health has confirmed 26 cases of pertussis in the past six weeks, and 47 cases so far in 2011. Since school began this fall, suspected or confirmed cases have been reported – or are under investigation – in 11 Chittenden County schools. The Health Department alerted health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Health dept reports increase in pertussis cases</title>
		<link>http://bigmedicine.ca/wordpress/2011/11/vermont-health-dept-reports-increase-in-pertussis-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington VT &#124; The Vermont Department of Health has alerted health care providers statewide about an increase in the number of cases of pertussis, a vaccine-preventable disease commonly known as whooping cough. Twenty-seven cases of pertussis have been confirmed in Vermont this year, including six cases in the past month. Recent confirmed cases have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont &#124; Stories about rural health showed innovation and resilience in the wake of Irene</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burlington VT &#124; When floods from Irene demolished roads and isolated residents for several days, health care providers at Rochester Health Center organized a plan to get their patients needed medications. People with working cell phones climbed the 2,800-foot mountain that divides Rochester from Randolph’s Gifford Medical Center to call in orders to clinical staff [...]]]></description>
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