Epidemiology Program

Friendly URL: http://www.mass.gov/dph/epi
Use the link above to return directly to this page in the future.

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.

Please bookmark this page or enter the following web address into your browser to return: www.mass.gov/dph/epi

Topics

• Animals and Your Health
• Antibiotic Resistance (includes information about MRSA)
• Arbovirus (includes West Nile Virus and EEE)
• Educational Materials Catalog (PDF 1MB)    
• 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 Epidemiology Program within the Department of Public Health.