Welcome to the Communicable Disease (CD) Control and Prevention Program in the Public Health Department of San Luis Obispo County. The CD program works in partnership with healthcare providers and the community to protect the public from the spread of contagious diseases that could result in illness, disability or death. As well, the CD Program provides consultations and information on contagious diseases, offers referrals for treatment of individuals exposed to certain communicable diseases, and conducts investigations on highly transmissable conditions.

Our Services

- Reporting & Surveillance: collecting and analyzing data is a vey important component to accurate disease control and prevention. Clinicians should send a Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form to the Health Department when they think a patients has a reportable disease. A CMR can be downloaded and printed using the following link:  Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR)  ( PDF 916 KB)

Summaries of communicable disease data submitted to the Public Health Department are available by year on the SLO County Epidemiology site.

To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click on the icon below . This is a free download.

- Education and Prevention: Provide education about Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV and Hepatitis and counseling to high risk populations and community agencies; screening of high risk individuals and referral to health care providers for evaluation, treatment and follow-up when appropriate.  

 - Evaluation and Treatment

• HIV and Hepatitis C Testing
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
• Tuberculosis
  

Information

• Avian Influenza-Facts From the CA Department of Fish and Game
• MRSA
• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
• Tuberculosis
• Vaccine Preventable Disease Documents
• Valley Fever (coccidioides immitis) recommendations to protect workers
• West Nile Virus - General Information
• West Nile Virus - Clinical Information
• Zoonotic Diseases - Informational Brochure and Flyer (Required Adobe Acrobat)
• Zoonotic Diseases: The Shared Threat (brochure)  ( PDF 353 KB)
• 10 Ways to Prevent Zoonotic Disease Threats to your family and pets (flyer) ( PDF 324 KB) 

Contact Us

SAN LUIS OBISPO Public Health
2191 Johnson Ave
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Phone: 805-781-5500 or after hours 805-781-4550
Fax: 805-781-5543

Online Contact Form

   

For specific information regarding treatment or follow up on specific communicable diseases you search alphabetically on the Federal Center for Disease Control (CDC)  website http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000e035

 

Website links to infectious & other disease resources:

Animal-Related Diseases

Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases

Childhood Diseases

            California DHS, Division of Communicable Disease Control (DCDC)

 Emerging Infectious Diseases

Food-Related Diseases

Healthcare-Related Infections and Issues

HIV/AIDS  

Insects and Arthropod-Related Diseases  

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Water-Related Diseases

Tuberculosis  

Weekly morbidity and mortality reports