In early spring 2022, with reports growing about mpox cases internationally, the DHEC Division of Acute Disease Epidemiology (DADE) staff began to follow updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May of 2020, the CDC issued a health alert regarding a positive mpox case in Massachusetts and DADE shared it through DHEC’s Health Alert Network (HAN).
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FREE STD/HIV testing on December 3 at most local health department clinics.
Hepatitis B is a contagious liver disease that results from infection with the hepatitis B virus. Some people get infected with hepatitis B and develop an acute, or short-term, illness, while others develop a chronic, or long-term, illness.
In 2011, legislation was passed to enact the "Stroke System of Care Act of 2011" to establish a statewide system of stroke care, which requires the Department of Public Health to recognize hospitals that are certified to be primary stroke centers and to authorize recognition of acute stroke capable centers and provide emergency medical services providers a list of primary stroke centers, stroke enabled centers through telemedicine, and other certified programs, as they come available.
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.
