Health

Health Professionals Corner

Communicable Disease Reporting

• Communicable Disease Reporting Form- DOH 389  
• List of Communicable Disease Reporting Requirements     
• Orange County 2011 Year End Monthly Morbidity Report       

Vaccine Preventable Diseases

• Health Advisory: Pertussis Continues in NYS 2012   
• Health Advisory: Pertussis on the Rise on Adults in 2012 
• Recommendations for Increasing Vaccine Coverage of Pertussis Containing Vaccines  
• Do you know what Pertussis (Whooping cough) sounds like?  
• Pertussis Fact Sheet  
• Best Practices for Pertussis Testing  
• "Immunize NY! 2012 NYSDOH Spring Newsletter"  
• Guidance on Maintaining Vaccine Viability during a Power Outage   
• When the Cough is Pertussis  
• Guidance on Pertussis Control for Health Care Providers   

Influenza Season 2012-2013

• Health Advisory: 2012-2013 Influenza Seasonal Vaccine Supply   
• Health Advisory: Increase in Variant Influenza A Virus 2012  
• Health Advisory: Health Advisory Influenza Prevention, Control, and Reporting Requirements 2012-2013   

Tick-Borne and Mosquito-Borne Diseases and Guidelines

• Lyme Disease Reporting Form- Updated April 2011  
• Lyme Disease Diagnosis  
• Diagnosing Tick Borne Diseases  
• IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Tickborne Diseases  
• Testing and Reporting Arbovial and Tickborne Illness   
• Human Case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in New York State 2011   
• Health Advisory Testing and Reporting of Mosquito and Tick-Borne Illnesses 2012  

Viral Hepatitis

• Hepatitis C Dear Colleague Letter Aug 2012  
• MMWR Recommendations for the Identification of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Aug 2012  

Public Health Alerts

• 2012 Public Health Alerts
  • PH Alert #1 - Pertussis  
  • PH Alert #2 - Pertussis Tdap Recommendations    
  • Public Health Alert #3 – Measles Case  
  • Public Health Alert #4 – Measles Alert     

Orange County Medical Society Articles

• Lessons Learned  
• Public Health Partnerships