Health Care Provider's Section

Recent Releases:

• Pertussis: Laboratory Testing - California Department of Public Health - March 2010
• Pertussis Flyer - Protect Infants, Adolescents & Adults!
• TB in Your Practice: Focus on Co-Morbidities
  - CTCA Annual Conference May 5 - 6, 2010 - April 1, 2010
• 2010 STD Clinician Update Flyer
• West Nile Virus - Public Health Advisory, April 1, 2010
• Rabies Post-Exposure Prophylaxis - April 1, 2010
• Tuberculosis Trends in Riverside County - Public Health Update, March 24, 2010
• 2010 STD Clinician Update - Save The Date
• CHANGE IN HOURS OF OPERATIONS - Effective August 13, 2009:
  Disease Control will begin modified hours of operation, due to the County of Riverside’s recent mandatory furlough implementation. This is in effect until further notice.
  Department of Public Health Administration building – Disease Control Main Office
  4065 County Circle Dr, Riverside, CA 92503, Suite 219
  Monday –Thursday 7:30am to 5:00pm. CLOSED EVERY FRIDAY
  Confidential Morbidity Reports should continue to be faxed to 951 358-5102 -TB Control 951 358-7922
• Influenza Surveillance Weekly Update - Public Health Advisory, December 26, 2009
• Revised Interim Guidance on Specimen Collection, Processing, and Testing for Patients with Suspected Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection - August 2009
• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Specimen Submittal Form - August 2009
• Mosquito Borne Disease - Public Health Advisory, May 2009
• CDC Travel Advisory - Public Health Advisory, April 2009
• Surveillance for Swine Influenza - Public Health Alert, April 2009
• Riverside County Influenza Surveillance - Week ending March 21, 2009
• The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Riverside County - Public Health Update, March 2008
• Influenza Antiviral Use for Persons at High Risk for Influenza Complications or Who Have Severe Influenza Illness
• Severe Staphylococcus aureus Infections Now Reportable by Healthcare Providers
• Update On MRSA Resistant Staph In Men Who Have Sex With Men - February 2008
• Information about MRSA Skin Infections
• Guidelines For Managing Respiratory Illness In Clinical Settings
  
  
• Forms / Guidelines / Recommendations,  including Public Health Reporting Guidelines
       This section offers all related information by category.
• Public Health Alerts and Advisories
• Communicable Disease Reporting in Riverside County
• Communicable Disease Report 2007
• Duty Officer Manual (password required)
• Monthly Morbidity / Disease Report - March, 2010
• Public Health Dispatch
• VIS - Vaccine Information Statements / VAERS
• VaxTrack Immunization Registry
• Riverside County Immunization Coalition for Kids and Infants (RICKI)
• West Nile Virus Activity in Riverside County in 2005

See Information About Diseases / Agents for additional resources