Any disease that spreads from one vector (person, animal, or object) to another is considered a communicable disease. Communicable diseases are everything from the common cold to HIV, from the flu to COVID, from ringworm to Salmonella. We care about protecting our community from having an outbreak from diseases like these. You may see us preventing the spread of disease through the following methods:
Communicable Diseases
We conduct education and outreach campaigns centered around different diseases. You’ve likely seen our flu vaccine reminders or posters about good hand hygiene. These, and many others, are created to provide the community with information on how to prevent illness and diseases and motivate them to do their part in protecting our community.
Data and research may not be as well known, but our team works hard to watch the trends of diseases along with the preventable measures to help us predict if there is going to be a spike in a seasonal illness. There are a lot of areas we use data and research to help guide the measures we focus on, but they all are motivated by the desire to keep diseases out of Lincoln County.