Press Releases

This week is Child Passenger Safety Week- A campaign dedicated to helping parents and caregivers make sure their children ride as safely as possible- every trip, every time.

With flu season quickly approaching, the Oneida County Health Department is stressing the importance of being educated on prevention, and most importantly: getting a flu shot. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop and to provide protection against the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months-old and older get a flu vaccine every year.

Oneida County Health Department is encouraging the public to use caution, as there is a likely cyanobacteria HAB on Oneida Lake (Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego Co). OCHD does not regulate any public bathing beaches on Oneida Lake.

Oneida County Health Department is encouraging the public to use caution, as there has been a confirmed presence of a cyanobacteria HAB in Otter Lake (Oneida Co.). There is also a report of a likely cyanobacteria HAB on Delta Lake and Turtle Pond within Delta Lake State Park but currently outside of the public bathing beach.

The New York State Department of Health and the Oneida County Health Department are urging residents to avoid the risk of rabies and rabies treatment by capturing and submitting for testing any bat found in their home that may have had contact with humans or their pets.

The DEC recently received a report of a likely cyanobacteria HAB (Harmful Algae Bloom) on Otter Lake in Oneida County. Although the size of the bloom is small and localized, exposure to any cyanobacteria HAB’s can cause health effects in people and animals when water with blooms is touched, swallowed, or when airborne droplets are inhaled. This is true regardless of toxin levels; some blue-green algae produce toxins, while others do not.