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A healthy workforce boosts productivity, lowers absenteeism, fosters a positive work environment, and most importantly, lowers the risk to your company's brand and reputation.

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Health Crisis Prevention + Management
For Modern Businesses

Whether you have a growing hospitality group or a major nationwide concept, it’s imperative that you protect your reputation and brand loyalty from illness, outbreaks, and other health crises.

Zero Hour Health’s team of advisors will help you prevent and manage your risk so your team can focus on growing the business.

Advisory from the most knowledgeable industry experts, 24/7/365.

Whether it’s navigating a foodborne illness outbreak, receiving guidance on best practices with your local health department, or general questions about your employees’ health, we’re here to keep you, your staff, and your business safe.
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Detecting and preventing illnesses, before they go public.

The best way to stop a crisis is to prevent it from becoming one in the first place. We’ll help you create a culture of safe working, detect problematic illnesses before they spread, and, most importantly, keep your business out of the news.
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Protecting the most important asset in your businesses: your brand.

An outbreak is one of the few crises that can permanently damage a brand. From local news, to the nightly news, to the trading floors, your reputation is the foundation of your business and its value. Protecting that asset is a top priority.
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Screening and assisting the hiring process for at-risk positions.

Whether you need to do physical examinations to ensure a prospective employee can do the job, or your industry regulations call for a battery of exams, we streamline this process and handle it for every step of the way. Save time, hire quicker, and protect yourself against workers' comp claims.
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A suite of services to support every aspect of your operations.

This is just a core breakdown of the main services we provide to our clients. We build highly customized solutions to support any need you have.

ZHH Pro

ZHH Pro is our industry-best advisory service. We tailor our support to solve your most pressing needs, whether you've got 6 locations or 600 locations. We can provide 24/7/365, high-level clinical support to keep your business running.
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Wellness Checks

The single best way to prevent illness in the workplace is to prevent sick employees from showing up in the first place. ZHH Wellness Checks are the best solution to identify and assess potentially sick employees.
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Vaccination Programs

From Flu to Hep A, vaccinations are a vital part of keeping your workforce healthy. We help businesses identify employee immunization history, track their records, and facilitate vaccinations both on-site and off.
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Exams & Regulatory Testing

Ensure that potential employees are fit to perform their roles safely and effectively using our industry-best pre-employment programs. We help employers maintain compliance with stringent industry standards and regulations without adding friction to the hiring process.
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June 12, 2026
🥩 Bad news for beef, fall flu & more

Spotlight on Beef: 

  • There are 7 active cases of New World screwworm in U.S. animals, mostly in cattle, but also a goat and a dog. (APHIS)

  • The CDC activated a formal emergency response plan to NWS on Thursday, including prep for human infections, though they’re rare. USDA is leading the animal response. (Hill)

  • Dairy cattle herds infected with H5N1 bird flu are still increasing in the U.S., with 30 new herds infected in Idaho this week. (Brown Pandemic Center)

  • Beef prices were already at a record high before screwworm was found in Texas and New Mexico, hurting restaurant profit margins. (RBO)

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Health News:

  • The DRC reported 635 Ebola cases, up 291 cases from last week. There have been 127 deaths there. Uganda has 3 new cases this week, for a total of 19, though there are rumors of an additional outbreak in a refugee camp. (Brown Pandemic Center)

  • Clover Hill recalled requesón or soft ricotta cheese due to Listeria contamination. There have been 9 cases and 1 death in 3 states. (CDC)

  • Meanwhile, the FDA is investigating a new Salmonella outbreak with 62 cases. (FDA)

  • A measles outbreak in Central Virginia is growing rapidly, with over 100 cases total, mostly in the past month. (WTVR)

  • The FDA expanded sunscreen options with the first new ingredient since the ‘90s. The chemical has been safely used in European sunscreen for decades. (Reuters)

  • Tularemia, a rare disease tied to rabbits and ticks, was found in Colorado. (Yahoo)

  • Trust in the CDC’s health recommendations dropped sharply over the past year, from 77% down to 50% according to a Harvard poll. (Hill)

  • In an anonymous survey of CDC staffers, 95% said that Americans would die because of federal cuts to the agency. (CIDRAP)

  • Some great news: 2 passengers from the MV Hondius ship that previously tested positive for hantavirus have recovered and tested negative. This outbreak is winding down. (CBC)

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Best Question:

Will there be updated flu shots this fall?

Short answer: yes, updated shots will be available and are expected to be covered by insurance.  Longer answer: it’s more complicated than usual. 

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Flu vaccines need to be updated each year because the virus mutates so rapidly. It can be hard to predict which strains will become dominant in the fall, but scientists from around the world meet to look at each hemisphere’s previous flu season and make a best guess about what to include. 

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There will be an updated flu shot for the fall, targeting 3 strains, including the H3N2 strain that wreaked some havoc this past winter. The WHO met to recommend those in February, and the FDA met in March and accepted those recommendations without changes (despite that the U.S. is no longer a part of the WHO). The next step, in a normal year, would be a meeting of the ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory council, to determine which Americans they recommend the vaccine for. But the ACIP is in limbo after a federal ruling basically suspended it due to improper selection of new members. There’s been a lot of politicking about making a new version of the ACIP, but they haven’t met in months and it’s unclear if they will. 

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There’s no reason to worry about vaccine availability, though. Even if the ACIP doesn’t vote or make recommendations, the FDA has approved the updated shots and that’s all manufacturers needed to start producing them. One of the largest insurance trade groups has also reassured the public that private insurers will cover flu shots this fall, regardless of whether the ACIP votes to do so (or even exists, for that matter). 

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In the absence of the ACIP, major medical organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association have stepped up to make clear vaccine recommendations. We’ll look to them this fall, but have no doubt that they’ll continue to say that most Americans 6 months and up should get a flu shot every fall. 

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Sources: Atlantic, CIDRAP

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Best Read:

We had fun (and to be honest, didn’t actually ace!) this food safety quiz about home-cooked food… in our defense, we’re pretty used to having cold and hot holding temps when making these decisions…

Eat it or toss it? Put your food safety knowledge to the test - Washington Post (Gift Article)

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