Epidemiology Program
The Epidemiology Program helps protect the residents of the Commonwealth from foodborne illnesses, emerging infectious illnesses, and other communicable diseases. Major goals of the program are:
- the prevention of rabies in humans and domestic animals (of critical importance since the arrival of the raccoon rabies epizootic in the fall of 1992),
- the surveillance of emerging and re-emerging infections and
- interruption of transmission of communicable diseases.
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Topics
- Animals and Your Health
- Antibiotic Resistance (includes information about MRSA)
- Arbovirus (includes West Nile Virus and EEE)
- Educational Materials Catalog (RTF 2.7MB)
- Fact Sheets
- Foodborne Illness
- Handwashing
- Hepatitis
- Infection Control Guidelines (includes guidelines for long-term care facilities)
- Influenza
- Meningitis
- Rabies
- Reportable Communicable Diseases (includes Isolation and Quarantine information)
- Tickborne Disease
Contact Us
Division of Epidemiology and Immunization
State Laboratory Institute
305 South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Tel.(617) 983-6800
Fax(617) 983-6840
This information is provided by Communicable Disease Control within the Department of Public Health.