{"id":53250,"date":"2014-07-03T06:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=53250"},"modified":"2014-07-03T06:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:50:31","slug":"health-dept-provides-july-4-safety-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/07\/03\/health-dept-provides-july-4-safety-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Dept. provides July 4 safety tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ohio Dept. of Health information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; As Ohioans make plans to celebrate the July Fourth holiday weekend, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) offers several tips for ensuring a healthy, safe celebration by taking a few precautions regarding fireworks, food-borne and water-borne illnesses, mosquitoes and measles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re planning to go to a fireworks display, a cookout, a swimming party, camping or traveling, there are some simple precautions you can take to help keep your family healthy and safe,\u201d said ODH State Epidemiologist Dr. Mary DiOrio.<\/p>\n<p>Those include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ohio law permits the use of sparklers and other types of novelties. Sparklers can burn at more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and should be used with caution.<\/li>\n<li>Cook food to the right temperature.<\/li>\n<li>Refrigerate uneaten food promptly.<\/li>\n<li>Wash and rinse fruits and vegetables unless they can be peeled.<\/li>\n<li>Drink beverages that are bottled and have a seal that is unbroken.<\/li>\n<li>Wash hands often with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer.<\/li>\n<li>Bugs (including mosquitoes, ticks and some flies) can spread a number of diseases. Use insect repellent.<\/li>\n<li>Shower with soap before and after swimming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s continuing measles outbreak is the largest in the U.S. since 1994. Parents with infants too young to be vaccinated with the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine should consider not traveling with them to areas where measles outbreaks are occurring. Contracting measles is especially serious for infants younger than 1 year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Dept. of Health information COLUMBUS &#8212; As Ohioans make plans to celebrate the July Fourth holiday weekend, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) offers several tips for ensuring a healthy, safe celebration by taking a few precautions regarding fireworks, food-borne and water-borne illnesses, mosquitoes and measles. \u201cIf you\u2019re planning to go to a fireworks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 12:28:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}