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Infectious Disease Control

Reportable Disease List
(PDF, 493KB) Disease Reporting Form (PDF, 135KB)

Florida Department of Health in Osceola County

Hepatitis
The Florida Hepatitis Prevention Section, Florida Department of Health, recommends hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccines, as well as hepatitis B and C testing, for adults at increased risk for hepatitis infection, or the serious consequences of infection. The vaccines and laboratory testing are available for Florida residents 18 and older, and may be offered at no charge if eligible.

Refugee Health
The goal of the Refugee Health Program (RHP) is to be a leader in providing culturally sensitive health services to persons who have fled their home country due to persecution (political, religious, or economic) in search for a better life and self-sufficiency in the U.S. 

To protect Florida's public health and enhance personal health status, the RHP offers a health assessment and vaccinations to eligible refugees, asylees, Cuban/Haitian entrants, Amerasians, those with special immigrant visas, and victims of human trafficking.  Refugees with identified health conditions are referred to primary care physicians and specialists for follow-up health care.

The RHP provides these services through funding from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Florida Department of Children and Families, Refugee Services.

STD (sexually transmitted diseases)

Provide screening, confidential counseling of infected patients, treatment, and partner notification services to persons infected with or suspected of being infected with STDs.  HIV Testing is offered.

Several factors influence the need for improved collaborative work and integration of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and tuberculosis (TB) programs prevention and disease control services. There are interactions between concurrent infections, risk behaviors, and the cumulative effects of being infected with multiple communicable diseases, especially on health inequities affecting at-risk populations.

Laboratory reporting and surveillance analysis are used to identify and report diseases. Other components include outreach events and notification of at-risk persons residing in other public health jurisdictions. 

TB (Tuberculosis)
The Department is committed to protecting communities across Florida from the spread of TB by providing leadership, policy development to assure provision of coordinated care to persons with active TB disease, their close contacts and other persons at high risk for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and by assuring a system of care is in place to manage complicated TB patients.

Reportable Diseases