Public Health: Important Information

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Would you like to know more about how the Okanogan County Public Health District (OCPHD) is designated as a Local Health Jurisdiction (LHJ) in Washington state? Here is a good please to start:

• Visit the WA DOH Public Health in Washington State page for a structure overview or Washington's Public Health System
• Review the Foundational Public Health Services brief (WSAC, 2019)

• Animal Transmitted Diseases (WA DOH)
• Serious Risks of Using Decorative Contact Lenses (WA DOH)
• COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2
  • Report a Positive COVID-19 Home Test
• Flu (WA DOH)
  • When and How to Wash Your Hands (CDC)
• Hepatitis A (WA DOH)
• Living with MRSA (Brochure / PDF)
• Notifiable Conditions / Communicable Diseases (WA DOH)
• Opioid Use Prevention 
• Rabies (WA DOH)
• Respiratory Illness Data Dashboard (WA DOH)
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI / WA DOH)
  •  STI Testing Sites in Okanogan County
• Syringe Exchange program (SEP)
• Vaccines & Immunizations
• West Nile Virus (WA DOH)

• Air Quality
• Drinking Water
  • Water Testing
• Electricity or Power Outage
• Floods & Mold
• Food Safety
  • Food Worker card / permits
• Liquid Waste / On-Site Septic (Sewage)
• Pests (WA DOH)
  • Bed Bugs (WA DOH)
  • Deer Mouse brochure (PDF)
    • Hantavirus (WA DOH)
  • Mosquitoes (WA DOH)
  • Ticks 
    • Lyme Disease (WA DOH)
    • An Uptick in Ticks (NIH)
    • Ticks (WA DOH)
  • Pesticides (WA DOH)
• Wildfire / Fire

• Birth & Death Certificates
  • How to Order a Washington state Vital Record Online