Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology

The center works to protect and preserve the health and safety of Iowans from infectious diseases through disease surveillance; investigation of acute outbreaks; education and consultation to county, local, and private health agencies on infectious diseases; immunization and vaccine guidelines; treatment after animal bites; and vaccines for international travel.

The center also provides consultation to county and local health agencies on diseases requiring public health intervention, collaborates with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by weekly reporting of nationally reportable diseases, and offers health education opportunities through lectures and organizational seminars.

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Measles Information

Mumps Information

General Information

• 2009 Fall EPI Update  
• Antibiotic Resistance
• CADE Clearinghouse Order Form  
• Cryptosporidiosis Surveillance Summary  
• Disclosure of Reportable Diseases  
• EPI Fact Sheets
• EPI Manual: Guide to Surveillance, Investigation, and Reporting
• EPI Updates
• Ethical Framework for Use in a Pandemic  
• Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Manual
• Food Safety-Power Outage: Commercial  
• Food Safety-Power Outage: Residential  
• Influenza
• Local Board of Health Quarantine Isolation Rules  
• Quarantine Sign
• Facility Isolation Order        View  
• Facility Quarantine Order     View  
• Home Isolation Order          View  
• Home Quarantine Order       View  
• Pandemic Influenza
• Personal Protective Equipment and Public Health  
• Reportable Diseases by Year   
• Reportable Infectious Diseases (this will open the epi manual, from there select "Reportable Disease Information")

Reports

• Annual Report of Iowa Notifiable and Other Diseases - 2008  
• Annual Report of Iowa Notifiable and Other Diseases - 2007  
• Annual Report of Iowa Notifiable and Other Diseases - 2006  

Iowa Healthy Child Care Respiratory Illness Initiative

• Coloring Page - Handwash  
• Coloring Page - Investigator  
• Child Care Provider's Guide to Respiratory Illness  
• Parent's Guide to Childhood Respiratoy Illness  
• Germ Fighters Intro Letter  
• Germ Fighters Lesson Plan  
• Jack the Germ  
• Monty Moose  

Links to Programs within Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology:

• Environmental Epidemiology
• Epidemiology Response Team
• Healthcare-associated Infection Prevention
• Iowa Disease Surveillance System (IDSS)
• Map of Regional Epidemiologists 
• Pertussis Information
• Rabies
• Terrorism Preparedness
• West Nile Virus Surveillance

For more information:

• Call (515) 242-5935, or
• 1 (800) 362-2736, or
• Use the "Contact Us" page to submit questions online.