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PUBLIC HEALTH - Always working for safer and healthier communities
Stay Healthy
— Wash Your Hands
Join the Handwashing Brigade!
(reduce spreading communicable disease by 50% or more)
May
is National Physical Fitness Month
Public Service Announcement
MRSA — A message to the community
The Flu Vaccine Situation (CDC) and Island County
FLU ACTIVITY REPORT: CDC & WASHINGTON STATE
Latest Info from the World Health Organization
If
you have questions regarding dead birds and avian flu, click here for info
 . .
.Are you ready? Do you have an Emergency Action Plan?
Breaking
News . . . Emerging Infectious Diseases
Food Safety
Press Releases
AVIAN FLU (pandemic flu info)
Hanta
virus
Zoonotic Report, Northwest – August
2006
Do you really need an
antibiotic?
Mosquitoes — How to control
them 
West
Nile Virus State toll-free Hotline... 1 866 788- 4787 WNV Newsletters (from DOH)
U.S. and State maps for West Nile Virus (updated monthly)
Mosquito-borne Diseases ( a slide show )
Aquatic
Mosquito Control NPDES General Permit
. . .What
about my horse? . . . Mosquito Control District
issues . . . CDC on WNV
and you'll find even more here, here, or
here under "West Nile
Virus"
Washington State's
Mosquito-borne Disease Response Plan (a long pdf file)
FOR MOSQUITO COMPLAINTS, etc. contact Kathleen @ (360)
678-7914
Island County Mosquito Surveillance Program Report (2003-2004)
WNV Recommendation to Local Board of
Health
DEAD BIRDS and BATS, REPORTING AND COLLECTING**
(with concerns about Rabies and West Nile Virus)
(Surveillance for West
Nile Virus in birds will resume in April, 2008)
Health
Department phone numbers for dead bird & bat reports and collection during normal
business hours: (Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.)
From Whidbey Island -
(360) 679-7350 x 7296 From
Camano Island – (360) 629-4522 x 7350
Birds:
Outside
of normal business hours or on weekends: (360)
679-7350
Bats: After hours or holidays please call
our normal emergency numbers.
The Health Department emergency numbers are on file with ICOM / 911
**with
concerns about possible Avian flu in sick or dying birds, look here. |
Earthquake &
Tsunami info . . . (and other
disaster planning info for the Pacific NW) . . . Be ready
WA State Public
Health News (click for beach closure and recreational
shellfish info)
Presently, all Island
County beaches are open to all shellfish harvesting. The health department cautions
everyone to always be sure to thoroughly cook shellfish taken from any beach in Island
County.
and those ever-present Ticks!
*Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Frequently Asked
Questions
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(Puget Sound Blood
Bank Regional Drives)
