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Communicable Disease

The Christian County Health Department seeks to control and limit the spread of communicable disase through disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, prevention education and tuberculosis control.

Our goals include increasing public awareness and education of diseases and their cause and treatment; changing attitudes and behaviors to prevent and control diseases; and creating social norms that favor healthy living.

Each year in the United States there are:
   Nearly 62 million cases of the common cold
   More than 8,000 Hepatitis B cases
   More than 16,000 Tuberculosis cases
   95 million cases of Influenza reported
   Nearly 2,000 deaths from Influenza

*Source: National Center for Health Statistics

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