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Orange County Communicable Disease Report <br />January-December, 2016 <br /> <br />CD-Related Activities (January –December, 2016) <br /> <br /> Jan-Dec. 2016 <br />Bloodborne Pathogen <br />Exposures <br />3 <br />Quarantine Orders Issued* 0 <br />Isolation Orders Issued* 11 All for persons with Hepatitis B <br />Health Law Violators 0 <br />CD Control Measure Orders <br />Issued* <br /> 24 (51) People excluded from school or work due to having symptoms and contact with a reportable <br />communicable disease. <br />Hepatitis B Perinatals <br />Tracked <br />3 <br />Infants Born to Hepatitis B <br />Positive Moms <br />4 <br />Infants Becoming Hepatitis <br />B Infected at Birth <br />0 <br />Death Investigation 1 UNC coworkers very concerned re: sudden death of coworker with symptoms possibly consistent with <br />infectious disease. <br />Involvement with reptiles <br />in childcare facility <br />1 <br />Pinworms at childcare <br />facility <br />1 <br />Chicken pox cases in <br />schools <br />4 Chicken pox is not reportable, but students are required to be vaccinated against it. This makes <br />monitoring and control measures to be heightened over typical responses in the past <br />Follow up to blood donation <br />by ineligible donor <br />1 Tracked down blood after donation to prevent its usw. <br /> *Annual reporting is an accreditation requirement <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Historical Information* <br /> 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 <br />Rabies Contacts 15 27 17 4 36 241 398 358 370 268 303 301 333 418 523 466 407 <br />Pertussis Cases 0 4 0 4 2 0 2 0 11 18 2 4 23 4 10 6 16 <br />TB cases 7 5 2 5 (Jail) 5 4 2 7 (Jail) 7 (Jail) 1 4 3 2 3 1 1 0 <br />Latent TB Infections Treated 11 24 32 29 44 53 35 85 72 65 41 64 53 59 50 37 41 <br />Refugee Arrivals/ CD <br />Screenings <br /> 227 118 51 87 78 73 76 58* 146 <br />