Communicable disease summary released

Communicable disease summary released
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The communicable disease summary is meant to provide residents, healthcare organizations and providers with important information about preventable diseases in Tuscarawas County.

                        

The Tuscarawas County Health Department released its 2020 annual communicable disease summary. This summary is an annual report of selected reportable diseases in Ohio that provides data from 2019 and 2020 and includes a comparison to State of Ohio data.

Also highlighted is data from one hepatitis A cluster outbreak that was investigated by the Tuscarawas County Health Department in 2020, along with two disease spotlights for COVID-19 and hepatitis A. The spotlights provide additional details about these highly reported diseases in Tuscarawas County.

The communicable disease summary is meant to provide residents, healthcare organizations and providers with important information about preventable diseases in Tuscarawas County. This report provides data on Tuscarawas County as a whole and also provides data broken down by the Tuscarawas County Health Department and the New Philadelphia City Health Department.

Even in times when a pandemic is not underway, it is an essential role of public health to provide disease surveillance to determine where patterns, clusters and outbreaks may be detected. Timely and complete disease reporting allows public-health professionals to respond to the changing health status of the community and ensure prevention activities reach the right people.

The 2020 annual communicable disease summary is now available on the Tuscarawas County Health Department’s website. The summary can be found at www.tchdnow.org/uploads/4/2/8/6/42860741/communicable_disease_annual_summary_2020.pdf.

For more information call the Tuscarawas County Health Department at 330-343-5555.


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