Working to prevent disease and promote health and safety since 1966.
Personal Health Services
Information for Healthcare Professionals
Communicable Disease Program:
Office: 815-334-4500
Confidential Fax: 815-334-1884
After Hours: 815-344-7421
Email the Department
LINKS:
School Nurse Website
Salmonella Typhimurium Clusters in Northeastern Illinois (Feb., 2013)
Human Infections with Avian Influenza/H7N9 (April, 2013)
HOW TO REPORT A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
VECTORBORNE ILLNESSES/SURVEILLANCE
IDPH Update WNV Memo
IDPH WNV Memo
First Human West Nile Virus Case for 2012
2012 Lyme Disease Reporting Form
MEASLES
IDPH Memo to Providers/Guidlines and Testing
PERINATAL HEPATITIS B
PERTUSSIS
CDC PERTUSSIS OUTBREAK GUIDLINES
CDC EXCLUSION GUILDINES
PERTUSSIS UPDATE MEMO/Testing and Exclusion
PERTUSSIS REPORT FORM MEMO
Pertussis Report Form
IDPH LETTER TO PHYSICIANS
Tdap IDPH SIREN ALERT FOR ED PHYSICIANS
Tdap RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PREGNANT WOMEN
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR Tdap PROPHYLACTIC WOUND MANAGEMENT
INFLUENZA TESTING/REPORTING GUIDELINES
ENTERIC DISEASES
Acute Gastroenterits Guidlines
Epidemiology of Foodborne Diseases/MCDH
Patient education on stool collection;
English
Spanish
STD TREATMENT GUIDELINES (CDC)
STD Treatment Guidelines and Reporting Presentation
STD Reporting Form for Physicians
RABIES
Vaccination Flowchart (Oct 2011)
Rabies Prevention (MMR, May 2008)
Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis in Immunocompetent Patients (IDPH Memo, March 2010)
BED BUGS
CDC Health Alert Regarding Bed Bug Pesticides (November 27, 2012)