This page lists the health alerts of public health importance from DPH prior to 2020. All health alerts from 1/1/2020 to the present day are located on the South Carolina Health Alert Network (HAN) page.
- Health Alert: conveys the highest level of importance; warrants immediate action or attention.
- Health Advisory: provides important information for a specific incident or situation; may not require immediate action.
- Health Update: provides updated information regarding an incident or situation; unlikely to require immediate action.
- Info Service: Provides general information that is not necessarily considered to be of an emergent nature.
Date | Message Type | Subject |
|---|---|---|
12/16/2019 | DHEC Health Advisory | Guidance for Using Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Ebola in the United States |
11/25/2019 | DHEC Health Update | |
11/20/2019 | DHEC Health Update | |
11/6/2019 | DHEC Health Update | |
10/9/2019 | DHEC Health Update | |
10/2/2019 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
8/30/2019 | CDC Health Advisory | Severe Pulmonary Disease Associated with Using E -Cigarette Products |
8/23/2019 | DHEC Health Advisory | Health Advisory: Recommendations to Address the Continued Increase in Early Syphilis Cases |
6/7/2019 | CDC Health Advisory | |
5/13/2019 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
3/28/2019 | CDC Health Advisory | Influenza Season Continues with an Increase in Influenza A(H3N2) Activity |
3/26/2019 | CDC Health Advisory | |
1/23/2019 | CDC Health Advisory | Third Case of Rifampin/Penicillin-Resistant Strain of RB51 Brucella from Consuming Raw Milk |
1/7/2019 | DHEC Health Advisory | Increase in Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) Infections among High-Risk Groups |
12/10/2018 | CDC Health Advisory | Update — Outbreak of Life-threatening Coagulopathy Associated with Synthetic Cannabinoids Use |
11/07/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/30/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/29/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/24/2018 | DHEC Health Update | |
10/04/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | Public Health Surveillance and Laboratory Testing for West Nile Virus, 2018 |
09/27/2018 | DHEC Health Update | |
09/16/2018 | CDC Health Advisory | Hurricane Florence – Clinical Guidance for Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning |
09/07/2018 | CDC Health Advisory | Advice to Clinicians about Leptospirosis in U.S. Travelers Returning from Northern Israel |
09/05/2018 | DHEC Health Alert | Communicable Disease Reporting during the 2018 World Equestrian Games |
08/10/2018 | DHEC Health Alert | |
07/11/2018 | CDC Health Update | |
06/28/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
06/11/2018 | CDC Health Advisory | |
06/08/2018 | DHEC Health Update | Public Health Surveillance and Laboratory Testing for Mosquito-Borne Diseases, 2018 |
06/07/2018 | CDC Health Update | |
05/25/2018 | CDC Health Advisory | Outbreak of Life-threatening Coagulopathy Associated with Synthetic Cannabinoids Use |
05/17/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
05/04/2018 | DHEC Health Alert | |
03/16/2018 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
12/27/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | Seasonal Influenza A (H3N2) Activity and Antiviral Treatment of Patients with Influenza |
11/29/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/24/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | |
10/20/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
09/28/2017 | DHEC Health Update | |
09/20/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | Public Health Surveillance and Laboratory Testing for West Nile Virus |
09/12/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | Hurricane Irma—Clinical Guidance for Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning |
08/04/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
07/07/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
07/03/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | Non-tuberculous Mycobacterium Infections among Surgical Patients |
05/18/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
05/17/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | Potential for Falsely Low Blood Lead Test Results from LeadCare® Analyzers |
05/05/2017 | CDC Health Update | |
05/05/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | |
04/19/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | |
01/25/2017 | CDC Health Advisory | |
01/06/2017 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/14/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
10/13/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
09/21/2016 | DHEC Health Update | |
08/26/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
08/01/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
07/27/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
07/11/2016 | DHEC Health Update | |
06/21/2016 | CDC Health Update | CDC Recommendations for Subsequent Zika IgM Antibody Testing |
06/17/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
06/13/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
05/25/2016 | CDC Health Update | Diagnostic Testing of Urine Specimens for Suspected Zika Virus Infection |
05/18/2016 | DHEC Health Update | ZIKA Virus Disease Testing: Interim Guidance for Zika Virus Testing of Urine |
05/05/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
05/05/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
03/25/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
03/11/2016 | CDC Health Update | |
02/24/2016 | DHEC Info Service | |
02/23/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | Update: Interim Guidelines for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016 |
02/19/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
02/06/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
02/01/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
01/28/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
01/28/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
01/22/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | Increase in Shigellosis Cases in Pee Dee and Lowcountry Regions |
01/21/2016 | DHEC Health Advisory | CDC Interim Guidelines for Pregnant Women During a Zika Virus Outbreak, United States, 2016 |
01/16/2016 | CDC Health Advisory | |
10/26/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | Increases in Fentanyl Drug Confiscations and Fentanyl-related Overdose Fatalities |
10/08/2015 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/07/2015 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
10/02/2015 | CDC Health Update | |
09/18/2015 | DHEC Health Advisory | |
09/11/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | |
09/11/2015 | DHEC Health Update | |
06/19/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | Clinical Considerations for the Evaluation of Ill Travelers from Liberia to the United States |
06/11/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | |
06/04/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | Ciprofloxacin- and Azithromycin-Nonsusceptible Shigellosis in the United States |
06/02/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | |
05/29/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | Notice to Health Care Providers: Shiga Toxin-producing E. coli cases |
04/24/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | Outbreak of Recent HIV and HCV Infections among Persons Who Inject Drugs |
03/11/2015 | DHEC Health Advisory | Infectious Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) in a Conway High School Individual |
02/20/2015 | DHEC Health Advisory | Measles Clinical Assessment, Testing and Infection Control Guidance for Ambulatory Care Providers |
01/29/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | |
01/23/2015 | CDC Health Advisory | U.S. multi-state measles outbreak, December 2014 - January 2015 |
01/23/2015 | DHEC Health Alert | |
01/09/2015 | CDC Health Update | CDC Health Update Regarding Treatment of Patients with Influenza with Antiviral Medications |