The St. Clair County Health Department is continuing its efforts to provide timely
information to the community regarding public health concerns as they arise. This
Health Updates page is your web source for information on new developments as well
as updates to existing issues being monitored by the St. Clair County Health Department.
We will be posting documents regarding these health concerns on this web page. The
documents will be in PDF format and can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free
software product available for download from Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com.
If you have further questions regarding public health issues, please contact the
St. Clair County Health Department at (810) 987-5300.
Current Influenza Activity
Flu Prevention Tips
Flu Vaccine Update 10-04-07
Hib Vaccine Recall
MRSA: What You Should Know
Protect Yourself from MRSA and Other Infections
Rabies Awareness
Additional MRSA info
Recent reports on the prevalence of MRSA have prompted many telephone
inquiries and many questions regarding available data on MRSA cases. Individual
case reports are not reportable in Michigan; therefore prevalence rates for either
Healthcare Associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) or Community Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) are
unknown. Outbreaks, however, are reportable to the local health department. An outbreak
is defined as “three or more culture-positive cases in a facility or in a community
that are epidemiologically linked and transmission (spread) is plausible.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new web site
that will help answer many questions about management of MRSA in schools: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MRSAinSchools/
The CDC website also has treatment guidelines for Community Associated MRSA as well
as information on Healthcare Associated MRSA.
Media information can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/community/media.htm