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Alerts & Hot Topics

• NC DHHS Memo: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) - May 29, 2024 (PDF, 215KB)
• NC DHHS Memo: Antibiotic resistant infections in North Carolina (CRE) - June 28, 2017 (PDF, 52KB)
• NC DHHS Memo: Monitoring Emerging Resistance in Candida auris - May 30, 2017 (PDF, 137KB)

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Disease Manuals & Guides

DHHS manuals:

• Communicable Disease Manual
• Hepatitis B Program Manual
• Rabies Control Manual
• STD Public Health Program Manual
• Tuberculosis Control Policy Manual
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Reporting - NCIP Requirements

Other N.C.-specific references:

• 11/21/11 memo: Reporting of Suspected Communicable Disease Outbreaks in Adult Care Homes (PDF, 117KB)
• N.C. Communicable Disease Rules

Other professional resources:

• Antibiotic resistance:
  • Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance - CDC information and educational campaigns.
  • Wake Forest Baptist Health: Center for Antimicrobial Utilization, Stewardship, and Epidemiology (CAUSE)
• Arboviruses
• Community-associated MRSA:
  • NC DHHS: Public Health management of CA-MRSA - Includes specific guidelines for athletic teams, child care facilities, food service establishments, incarcerated populations, and schools.
  • CDC: Prevention & Control of MRSA and other Bacterial Skin Infections – Educational materials including fact sheets, posters, e-cards for various audiences.
  • Los Angeles County (Calif.): CA-MRSA links and resources - Extensive and well-organized list of resources and links.
  • CDC: Laboratory detection of MRSA - Laboratory related information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • NC-SPICE: North Carolina Consensus Guideline for Management of Suspected Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTIs) - Algorithm and information for clinical management.
• E. coli
• Enteric Illnesses, public health management of
• Hand, foot and mouth disease:
  • 3/30/12 CDC MMWR: Notes from the Field: Severe Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Associated with Coxsackievirus A6 — Alabama, Connecticut, California, and Nevada, November 2011–February 2012
• Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Hepatitis:
  • Hepatitis Info for LHDs
  • Hepatitis B Program Manual
  • Hepatitis Organizations and Websites - National and state organizations and websites for general audiences as well as information especially for healthcare professionals.
• HIV/AIDS
• Influenza:
  • N.C. Flu Update (flu.ncdhhs.gov) - Influenza info and guidance for healthcare professionals.
• Injection practices:
  • Injection Safety Resources for Healthcare Providers
  • One and Only Campaign - North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has joined the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC) One and Only Campaign to raise awareness among patients and healthcare providers about safe injection practices.
  • NC DHHS 07/31/12 memo: Infections from Misuse of Single-Dose/Single-Use Vials (PDF, 183KB)
  • NC DHHS 12/2/10 memo (rev 3/23/11): Spread of Hepatitis B Through Unsafe Diabetes Care (PDF, 214KB)
• Lyme disease
• Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
  • NC DHHS Memo: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) - May 29, 2024 (PDF, 215KB)
• Norovirus:
  • Norovirus Outbreaks: What to do
  • Norovirus info in the N.C. Communicable Disease Manual
• Rabies:
  • N.C. Rabies Control Manual - North Carolina-specific guidance and information for local health departments, healthcare providers, veterinarians, certified rabies vaccinators, animal control and other professionals involved in rabies control and prevention. Includes N.C. laws and rules, risk assessment algorithms, human PEP recommendations and standing order templates, animal vaccination requirements, and animal management protocols.
• STDs/STIs:
  • HIV/STD Information for LHDs
  • N.C. STD Program Manual
• Tick-borne illnesses
• Tuberculosis:
  • Tuberculosis Control Policy Manual
  • Tuberculosis Info for LHDs
  • N.C. Tuberculosis Control Program
• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases:
  • CDC: Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  • Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Reporting - NCIP Requirements

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Services

• Communicable Disease Field Services – The unit within the Communicable Disease Branch which assists local health departments in disease intervention and partner notification.
  • Map of Field Services regions (PDF, 262KB)
  • Regional offices contact information (PDF, 19KB)
• Communicable Disease Nurse Consultants (PDF, 33KB)- Regional Medical Consultation Unit staff supporting LHD Communicable Disease Nurses across the state.
• Communicable Disease Training
  • Annual conference
  • Communicable disease training course
  • Technical assistance and training program (TATP)
  • STD-related training opportunities
• Epi Notes - Quarterly newsletter for epidemiology issues relevant to North Carolina public health practitioners and other interested people. The current distribution list includes all N.C. local health directors, selected state agencies and a number of healthcare providers in local hospitals and medical offices.
• Hospital-Based Public Health Epidemiologists (PHEs) - Based in North Carolina's largest hospital systems, these PHEs aid communication between hospitals and local public health, communicable disease reporting, and communicable disease investigations.
• Medical Consultation Unit – The unit within the Communicable Disease Branch that provides medical consultation to local health department nurses and other persons working to limit the spread of communicable diseases in the community. This unit includes the Communicable Disease Nurse Consultants and the Technical Assistance and Training Program (TATP).
• N.C. DPH resources for local health departments – Information about accreditation, aid to counties, contacts, Public Health Training and Information Network (PHTIN), clinic program forms and codes, dispensing of drugs by public health nurses, records retention, Health Information System (HIS), HIPAA, purchase of medical care services (POMCS), problem-oriented health record (POHR) forms, program area information, statistical analysis support.
• NC EDSS User Guides
• State Laboratory of Public Health
• Statistical Services - The State Center for Health Statistics (SCHS) compiles and analyzes N.C. health data for research and the development of policies, programs and services. The Health Services Analysis Team (HSAT) is available to aid N.C. public health agencies with statistical studies and analysis.
• Tuberculosis Nurse Consultants (PDF, 69KB)- Regional DPH staff supporting LHD TB Nurses across the state.

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DHHS Forms

• HIV Medication Assistance Program
• Disease reporting forms for use with NC EDSS
• N.C. DPH forms for local health departments – Forms related to aid to counties, Primary Care (PC) and Other Services (OS)/General clinic programs and codes, and purchase of medical care services (POMCS), problem-oriented health records (POHR).
• Rabies:
  • Animal rabies: Forms for veterinarians and animal control agencies - Order rabies tags, vaccination certificates and health certificates (for animal import/export).
  • Human rabies: Request for Free State-Supplied Rabies Vaccine (PDF, 17KB) - Form includes the required affadavit and conditions under which a human patient may qualify for state-supplied post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies vaccine.
• State Lab of Public Health forms - Find forms related to State Lab testing services and specimen submission.
• STD treatment forms - STD clinical exam form (DHHS 2808) and state STD formulary inventory/ordering forms.
• Tuberculosis forms for local health departments - Clinical forms, reporting forms, and order forms for the state TB drug formulary and patient education materials.

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Tools & Websites

• CDC widgets and gadgets
• DHHS posters and brochures - Promote handwashing, good health manners, and "Keep Illness from Spreading" in English and Spanish:
  • Good Health Manners factsheet - English (PDF, 10KB)
  • Good Health Manners factsheet - Spanish (Modales de buena salud - hoja informativa) (PDF, 10KB)
  • "Keep illness from spreading" poster - English (black and white PDF, 295KB / color PDF, 304KB)
  • "Keep illness from spreading" poster - Spanish (Evite la propagación de las enfermedades) (black and white PDF, 313KB / color PDF, 283KB)
  • "Keep illness from spreading" bookmark (black and white PDF, 277KB / color PDF, 285KB)
  • Washing Your Hands poster (English) (PDF, 772KB)
  • Washing Your Hands poster (Spanish) (PDF, 772KB)
• Injection Safety
• Sample policies and procedures
• STD program assessment tools
• NCEDSS Login

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