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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/beh/child.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Child/Toy Product Safety</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Safety suggestions for gift giving, recall notices.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><a href="/bcccp/antipers.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">E-mail Hoax</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">An email has been circulating over the Internet which falsely links antiperspirant use with an increased risk of
breast cancer. Even if the emails come from a reliable source, experts suggest that you should always look to the
medical evidence<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/news/b_new235.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Flood Precautions</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Precautions to help avoid injuries and illnesses.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="ech/rad/pages/page11.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Food Irradiation</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Information about the benefits and risks.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/hcqs/ems/heatwave.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Heat-Stress Precautions</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Precautions to help avoid heat-related injuries and illnesses.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/ideas/factsht/flu.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Influenza</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Information about the 1998 Influenza Season in Texas.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="injury/index.html"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Injury</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Injury Prevention and Control.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="rabies/rabies97.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Rabies</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">A guide for medical care providers
(physicians, nurses, pharmacists and laboratory workers) in the evaluation of possible exposures of humans to rabies and in the
treatment of probable exposures.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/immunize/rub_updt.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Rubella Update</b></a></font></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Update on confirmed cases in Texas.
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="/ideas/factsht/factsht.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance Division</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Information on outbreaks, disease surveillance findings, and fact sheets on infectious diseases.<hr></td></tr>
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<td width="150" align="left"><A HREF="news.htm"><b><font size="2" face="arial">News and Events</a></font></b></td>
<td width="415" align="left">Contains news releases, updates, feature stories, commentaries, calendar of events, open meetings, Board of Health Agenda<hr></td></tr>
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<i>Last Updated 6/9/99</i>
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