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Kennewick:
8am to noon
1pm to 5pm
Monday-Friday
Pasco:
8am to noon
1pm to 5pm
Monday-Friday
Prosser:
9am to 1pm
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
NEW HOURS!
in Prosser Office
Starting March 15th!
Immunizations: Tuesday and Thursday; 9am to Noon and 1pm to 5pm.
Environmental Health: Monday and Thursday; 9am to 10:30am.
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Environmental Health is an organized community effort aimed at minimizing the public's exposure to
environmental hazards and the prevention of human disease and injury by identifying environmental
factors contributing to the human conditions and modifying them to assure the conditions in which
people can be healthy.
Environmental Health is accomplished through a broad spectrum of
professional disciplines united by their shared mission.
Environmental Health is the science and the art of:
1.Identifying the disease or injury agent through assessment
2.Preventing the agent's transmission through the environment
by the way of policy development-providing intervention
measures
3.Protecting people from the exposure to contaminated
and hazardous environments (a product of assurance)
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Some of today's Environmental Health concerns are
Drinking Water Source Pollution
- Nitrates, Bacterial, Toxic Chemicals
Waterborne Disease
- E.Coli, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Hepatitis
Foodborne Illness
- E.Coli, Salmonella, Botulism
Vectorborne Disease
- Hantavirus, Rabies, Lyme Disease
Reemergence of Eradicated Disease
- Cholera, Typhoid
Other Contributors
- Indoor Air Quality, Airborne Pollution
(Asthma related illness), Natural Disaster
Relief
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Applications available:
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About the BFHD 
Benton Franklin Health District