Rubella Checks Urged for Potential Mothers in Manitoba
Manitoba health officials urge women of childbearing age to test immunity and vaccinate if needed amid a winter rubella outbreak. 435 cases reported in four weeks, 462 total for 1979, mainly in Winnipeg, with 56 cases in women of childbearing age and two pregnancies. Vaccination and testing offered free through public health channels. test confirms immunity and vaccination advised after pregnancy is ruled out.
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Winnipeg - Manitoba
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Health and Community Services
Bud Sherman
Department of Health and Community Services
Sherman
Manitoba school area grants support clinic services
Grants totaling 92 193 dollars go to Fort la Bosse Turtle Mountain Antler River and Souris Valley in southwestern Manitoba, 91 475 to Lord Selkirk Agassiz Pine Falls and Whiteshell in eastern Manitoba, and 51 180 to Beautiful Plains Rolling River divisions. Services cover psychologists speech pathologists and reading specialists for the 1978 79 academic year. Readings indicate 7 342 students in the southwestern group 9 497 in the eastern group and 4 832 in Rolling River Beautiful Plains. Operating responsibility rests with steering committees of school divisions and Education Department reps with advisory input from parents teachers and authorities.
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Fort la Bosse
Turtle
Mountain
Antler River
Souris Valley
Manitoba
Lord Selkirk
Agassiz
Pine Falls
Whiteshell
Rolling River- Beautiful Plains
Department of Education
Education Services to Aid Handicapped in Manitoba
Education Minister Keith Cosens announced Education Services to Aid Handicapped will provide high quality support to school divisions for services to disabled students. He spoke at the Manitoba Teachers Society convention in Winnipeg on March 28 outlining early identification, professional coordinated support, and effective remediation as main goals while emphasizing the 1979 International Year of the Child and the right to play. Manitoba will also push to integrate physical activity into the curriculum across primary and elementary years.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Keith Cosens
Manitoba Teachers’ Society
Cosens
Mild Influenza Season Reported in Manitoba
Manitoba health officials report a mild influenza season with outbreaks in Winnipeg Thompson western Manitoba Selkirk and other regions. Measles hepatitis gonorrhea and rabies cases noted along with three rabid cows and four rabid skunks. Post exposure rabies treatment administered to two people.
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Manitoba
Sherman
Winnipeg
Thompson
Selkirk
Interlake
Eastern Manitoba
Mr. Sherman
Whitehead
Miniota
Dufferin
RM of
Grey
St. Laurent
Park
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