| | | MissionCommunicable Diseases Bureau provides timely detection, prevention, and control efforts for all reportable infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, HIV and other STDs and vaccine-preventable diseases. To Contact Us, call our main line: 707 784 8001 275 Beck Avenue Fairfield, CA 94533 Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM What is Communicable Disease?Communicable diseases are illnesses that spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person, or from a surface or a food. Diseases can be spread by: - Physical contact with an infected person: touch, sexual intercourse, fecal/oral transmission, droplets
- Contact with contaminated surface or object: food, water, blood
- Bites from insects or animals capable of transmitting the disease (ex: mosquito or flea)
- Travel through the air
Public Health ReportingStatutory/Mandatory Reporting to Solano Public Health Reporting is crucial for disease surveillance, prevention and control, and for the early detection of disease outbreaks. Read more information required public health reporting. Programs & ResourcesPhoto Credits retrieved from PHIL site (from left to right): - CDC / Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS
- CDC / National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); Lauren Bishop
- CDC / Elizabeth S. Mingioli
- CDC / Jim Gathany
- CDC / James Gathany
- CDC / Debra Cartagena
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