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Petersburg’s Public Health Nurse: How to avoid measles when it’s on the rise nationwide

Petersburg’s Public Health Nurse: How to avoid measles when it’s on the rise nationwide

by Hannah Flor | Mar 7, 2024 | , , , | 0

More and more cases of measles have been documented in the United States over the last two years. And there have already been 41 cases of measles in the first two months of this year, compared to the 58 cases in all of 2023. But while measles has been reported in 16 states, it has not yet reached Alaska. Petersburg and Wrangell’s Public Health Nurse Erin Michael is hoping travelers enjoying the upcoming spring break don’t get the highly contagious virus.

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Petersburg sees increase in fentanyl-laced pills

Petersburg sees increase in fentanyl-laced pills

by Rachel Cassandra | Feb 3, 2023 | , , | 0

Southeast Alaska has seen an uptick in fentanyl-laced pills. Fentanyl is a highly addictive opioid fifty to a hundred times stronger than morphine. In Petersburg and other Southeast communities, law enforcement has found fentanyl most often in counterfeit blue pills which are designed to look like the prescription opioid oxycontin.

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Public Health Center makes overdose rescue kits available to community

Public Health Center makes overdose rescue kits available to community

by Nora Saks | Jul 18, 2017 | , | 0

Alaska was recently awarded a multimillion dollar federal grant to combat its growing opioid problem. With the money, the state Department of Health and Social Services has launched Project Hope – which aims to distribute 5000 kits containing a life saving drug called Naloxone, also known as Narcan, around the state. The Petersburg Public Health Center received ten of those kits.

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