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Communicable Disease

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Goal: To ensure proper reporting of communicable diseases, investigation of suspected outbreaks, and implementation of control and prevention measures.

  • Monitor the ongoing systematic collection of case reports of communicable diseases from physicians, health care providers, laboratories, child facilities, schools, and restaurants.

  • Collaborate with public health and community partners to design and implement measures to prevent outbreak of disease in the community.

  • Encourage prompt recognition to guide public health intervention in the reporting of unusual and emerging diseases, including bioterrorism events.

  • Enforce public health law compliance in order to control and prevent these diseases and other hazards considered harmful to the public health.

CDC National Center for Infectious Disease: Viral Hepatitis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Additional Websites:

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Epidemiology in North Carolina (Bioterrorism)
Medlineplus.gov

 
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