Promoting Your Health & Well-being

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sept. 21, 2026

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) will observe its seventh annual PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) Awareness Week by offering educational materials and free HIV testing, including visits to college campuses.

DPH offers tuberculosis testing to Hartsville High School community after ongoing transmission has been identified.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sept. 17, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Sept. 17, 2026

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed that two skunks found near Odell Street and Smith Circle in Liberty, S.C., have tested positive for rabies. No people are known to have been exposed at this time. One dog was exposed Sept. 11, 2026, by the first skunk, and exposed again Sept. 13, 2026, to the second skunk, and will be quarantined as required in the South Carolina Rabies Control Act.