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A highly contagious infectious disease, measles can cause serious complications like pneumonia, ulcers and scarring on the cornea, seizures, blindness, and encephalitis which can lead to permanent brain damage and, in some cases, death.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Manchester Health Department (MHD) have identified an adult who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) who spent time in a homeless shelter and a community organization in Manchester, New Hampshire while infectious.
From advancing efforts to create affordable housing and increasing public safety the Senate worked together in a bipartisan fashion to pass a number of bills Thursday.
By a single vote, the House voted to stop paying for poor children’s circumcisions under the state Medicaid program.
The House voted to repeal the New Hampshire Vaccine Association, a nonprofit that the Legislature established more than 20 years ago to provide discounted childhood vaccines to providers.
At a time when childhood immunization rates are declining nationally and Texas is
experiencing a serious measles outbreak, the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee heard testimony Wednesday on two vaccine bills.
She will help support the state’s Emergency 9-1-1 telecommunicators and staff in their high-stress work, as part of a public-private partnership praised by Gov. Kelly Ayotte.
To close what supporters call a gun purchase loophole in the state related to mental health, Senate Democrats again have crafted a bill authorizing the state to report mental health data to a national firearms background check and allow for the processes for confiscation of firearms.
A bill that would prohibit school boards from requiring facial coverings in their schools got full support for the measure during a public hearing Wednesday.
It would still allow for the governor to call for mandatory masks in the case of an emergency.