Communicable Disease Control Program

Central Michigan District Health Department’s Communicable Disease Control Program is committed to preventing the occurrence and spread of communicable disease within the community. Program activities include:

• Working with hospitals, medical providers, schools, daycares, universities, other Local Health Departments, and the Michigan Department of Community Health to investigate and control the spread of communicable diseases 

• Providing information to the public to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases

• Implementing disease control strategies, such as school-based immunization clinics within the community

• Analyzing reported diseases to measure changes in disease occurrence or trends and to detect and respond to outbreaks

 

Communicable Disease Reporting Procedures

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• Michigan CD Rules (2023 Brick Book)

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

• Why reporting is important

• Who should report?

• What to report?

• Communicable Disease Information

• CMDHD CD Data

• TB Control Program

 

Why reporting is important

Information obtained from communicable disease investigations is systematically gathered, analyzed, and disseminated to health care professionals and the public. Health officials are continually learning more about diseases, specifically:

• How organisms change

• Factors which influence the transmission of disease

• Evaluation of treatment or control measures for diseases

• How to prevent disease transmission

 

Who should report?

The Michigan Communicable Disease Rules, promulgated under the authority conferred on the Department of Community Health by section 5111 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being 333.5111 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, clearly designates communicable disease reporting responsibilities to the following individuals:

• Physicians

• Laboratories

• Infection Control Practitioners

• Epidemiologists

• Dentists

• Pharmacists

• Physician's Assistants

• Schools

• Daycares

• Camps

• Any health professional

 

What to report?

To report a communicable disease, please include the following information:

• The name of the person

• Pertinent contact information for the patient, including the address, phone number

• The disease

• The name of the person making the report

• List of Reportable Diseases

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

  

Communicable Disease Information

• Reportable Diseases in Michigan

• CD Fact Sheets

• Disease Information

  • Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

  • Bed Bugs (MDHHS)

  • Chickenpox (Varicella)

  • COVID-19

  • Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)

  • Ebola

  • Head Lice (MDHHS)

  • Lyme Disease

  • ​Measles

  • MRSA

  • Mumps

  • Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS - CoV)

  • Norovirus

  • Pertussis

    • MDHHS Information

    • CDC Information

  • Rabies

  • Scabies (MDHHS)

  • Seasonal Flu

  • Swine Influenza

  • Tuberculosis (TB)

 

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Communicable Disease Data

 

CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2005-2019)

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• CMDHD Five Years historical CD data (2015-2019)

• CMDHD Five Years historical CD data (2014-2018)

• CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2009-2013)

• CMDHD Five years historical CD data (2005-2009)

• Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Weekly Surveillance Report

 

Tuberculosis Control Program

  

The Central Michigan District Health Department offers tuberculin skin testing, surveillance & monitoring for infectious TB cases, epidemiologic TB investigations for infectious TB cases, treatment of clients with identified TB infection, epidemiological analysis of TB data.

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Please call or visit your local CMDHD Branch office for more information:

• Arenac County: 989-846-6541

• Clare County: 989-539-6731

• Gladwin County: 989-426-9431

• Isabella County: 989-773-5921

• Osceola County: 231-832-5532

• Roscommon County: 989-366-9166

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