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The super flu has arrived in Monterey County. Vaccinate if you haven’t already.
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The super flu has arrived in Monterey County. Vaccinate if you haven’t already.

  • Pam Marino
  • Jan 16, 2026

Pam Marino here, with news that the “super flu” is officially here and actively spreading in California. The California Department of Public H…

Fall is here—that means it’s decorative gourd season and also flu shot season.
Opinion

Fall is here—that means it’s decorative gourd season and also flu shot season.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 16, 2025

Have you gotten your flu shot yet, or made an appointment to do so? Sara Rubin here, pleased to say I’ve already checked that box (earlier tha…

A bat found in Del Rey Oaks tests positive for rabies.
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A bat found in Del Rey Oaks tests positive for rabies.

  • Pam Marino
  • May 2, 2025

A Mexican free-tailed bat found on Monday, April 28 near Carlton Drive in Del Rey Oaks tested positive for rabies, the County of Monterey Publ…

No-cost flu clinics are being offered around Monterey County in October.
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No-cost flu clinics are being offered around Monterey County in October.

  • Pam Marino
  • Oct 3, 2024

Flu season is here once again, which means everyone six months old and up is eligible for a flu shot.

Respiratory illnesses are hitting hard, pressuring health care systems.
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Respiratory illnesses are hitting hard, pressuring health care systems.

  • Pam Marino
  • Dec 8, 2022

A vestige of the early days of Covid-19, the respiratory triage tent, is making a reappearance at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula…

Monkeypox is the latest virus to pop up, but without the same punch as Covid-19.
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Monkeypox is the latest virus to pop up, but without the same punch as Covid-19.

  • Pam Marino
  • Aug 4, 2022

The first “probable” case of monkeypox in Monterey County was announced on June 23 by the Monterey County Health Department. As of Aug. 2, the…

Two years into a pandemic, people are still dying as life returns to normal.
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Two years into a pandemic, people are still dying as life returns to normal.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Mar 17, 2022

It’s been exactly two years since our world was upended. On March 17, 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic still felt like something happening somewher…

Two years after Covid-19 arrived in Monterey County, the pandemic is poised to become endemic.
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Two years after Covid-19 arrived in Monterey County, the pandemic is poised to become endemic.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Mar 17, 2022

On March 17, 2020, Monterey County Health Officer Edward Moreno called a press conference and announced that two patients had tested positive …

Calls to treat Covid “like the flu” are a siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.
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Calls to treat Covid “like the flu” are a siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.

  • Gregg Gonsalves
  • Feb 24, 2022

The last day of January saw over 2,500 deaths in this country. Hospitals are still reeling in many places, and both health care and public health workers on the front line are just burned out…

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