Featuring a Macy’s fashion show, healthy cooking demos, CPR trainings, giveaways and more

WHAT:  The American Heart Association in Sacramento will celebrate American Heart Month with its own Go Red fashion show at Arden Fair on Saturday, February 6. The fashion show will feature local adult and children heart disease survivors, cardiologists and volunteers. The event will also feature healthy cooking demos, free health screenings, CPR trainings and giveaways. Women, men and families of all ages are invited to attend the celebration and to help raise awareness of heart disease as the number one killer of women by wearing red.       

WHO:  The American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women is asking everyone to help America Go Red!

The Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency’s Community Health Branch has released a Health Alert to Yolo County medical providers regarding the Zika virus, and has provided the alert and other related information on www.yolohealth.org.

National news stories have highlighted a surge in the number of newborns in South America born with a serious and uncommon birth defect called microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the head, a congenital condition associated with incomplete brain development).  The birth defect, as well as miscarriages, are believed to occur in mothers infected with the Zika virus, a germ spread to people through mosquito bites. 

The Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency will begin holding regularly scheduled immunization clinics at the Winters Service Center, located at 111 E. Grant Avenue, on the first Monday of every other month, starting on February 1.

No appointment is needed to take advantage of this free service.  All recommended vaccinations, except varicella (chicken pox), will be available for children ages 0-18 years who are uninsured, Medi-cal eligible, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and those whose insurance does not cover the needed vaccinations.  The clinic will also be offering hepatitis A, hepatitis B, HPV (human papillomavirus), meningococcal and MMR (measles mumps, rubella), vaccines to uninsured or underinsured adults, 19 years and older.  Flu, pneumococcal and Tdap (adult tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccines are available for adults regardless of insurance status.