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MDARD offers holiday food safety advice

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reminds Michiganders to keep food safety in mind as they prepare and serve holiday treats to families and friends. MDARD offers these simple precautions to help keep food safe, guests healthy and the holiday gathering successful — — Wash hands frequently: Handwashing is one of the most important steps to prevent foodborne illness. Research shows handwashing lowers the rates of certain respiratory and gastrointestinal infections up to 23% and 48%, respectively. Hands should be thoroughly washed with soap and warm, running ...

State stresses ‘critical role’ of children’s vaccines

Michigan’s Chief Medical Executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, has issued a Standing Recommendation regarding children’s vaccines, advising health care providers and families to follow the child and adolescent immunization schedule produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians. “Public health experts across the country, including myself, are not in agreement with recent federal vaccine recommendations,” Bagdasarian said in a news release. “For decades, vaccines have played a critical role in the prevention and control of infectious ...

WSP begins Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of State Patrol is joining law enforcement agencies across the state and nation in a unified effort to get impaired drivers off the roads this holiday season. The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign kicked off this week, boosting efforts to educate and enforce Wisconsin’s impaired driving laws through New Year’s Day, according to a Wisconsin State Patrol news release. The last holiday season — Dec. 15, 2024, through Jan. 1, 2025 — saw 403 crashes involving impaired drivers in Wisconsin. Those incidents killed nine people ...