Medical briefs: September 21, 2008
Medical briefs: September 21, 2008

The State Department of Health will use World Rabies Day, Sept. 28, to raise awareness about the disease, and a 5K race will take place in Stillwater in October.

According to the Health Department, rabies kills more than 50,000 people worldwide every year, but it is a preventable illness. So far this year, 32 cases of rabies have been reported in Oklahoma, primarily in skunks and cattle.

Oklahoma State University's student chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association's Run for Rabies will begin at 8 a.m. Oct. 11 and track around Boomer Lake in Stillwater.

Participants are encouraged to run with their dogs. Registration is $20 and will include a T-shirt and light breakfast. Prizes will be offered to the top runners and their dogs with proceeds donated to the nonprofit Alliance for Rabies Control.

For more information on World Rabies Day, go to www.worldrabiesday.org.

Applebee's restaurants are raising funds for central Oklahoma affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure in conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The fundraiser is through Oct. 12 in all Oklahoma Applebee's restaurants in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Institute for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Education and Training will hold workshops on Tuesday in Tulsa, Lawton and Ardmore for substance abuse and mental health counselors.

For more information on the workshops, call 522-8300.

Kohl's Department Stores has donated $96,493 to Children's Hospital Volunteers at OU Medical Center. The funds will support Kohl's Raising Oklahoma's Awareness of Danger campaign.

Compiled by Staff Writers Jim Killackey and Vallery Brown

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