Healthy for the holidays

Are you sure you’ve had all the vaccines available to keep you in good health? Is mom hazy about whether you had a pneumonia shot as a kid, do you not have access to your vaccine records, or has blood work for a job or school come back saying you have low immunity?

No problem, says Becky Tinsley, Crook County Public Health – that’s a problem easily fixed. Vaccines are available at all times in your local public health office along with help to decide whether you need them.

“Any time it gets cold and people are having drier air, maybe breathing in smoke from wood-burning stoves, or d...