California Health Alert Network (CAHAN)
The California Health Alert Network (CAHAN) is the State of Californiaās web-based information and communications system for distribution of health alerts, dissemination of treatment and prevention guidelines, coordination of disease investigation efforts, preparedness planning, and other initiatives that strengthen state and local preparedness.
Other Health Advisories:
- All Facilities Letters - An All Facilities Letter (AFL) is a letter from the Center for Health Care Quality (CHCQ), Licensing and Certification (L&C) Program to health facilities that are licensed or certified by L&C. The information contained in the AFL may include changes in requirements in healthcare, enforcement, new technologies, scope of practice, or general information that affects the health facility.
- Healthcare-Associated Infections Program - CAHAN health advisories that were issued by the HAI Program.
- Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Health Alert Network (HAN)
CDC/Health Alert - June 14, 2022 - This Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Update serves to alert clinicians to clinical presentations of monkeypox seen so far in the United States and to provide updated and expanded case definitions intended to encourage testing for monkeypox among persons presenting for care with relevant history, signs, and symptoms.
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CDPH/Health Advisory - June 7, 2022 - The California Department of Public Health is issuing this Health Alert to update public health departments, healthcare providers, and the public about the potential for āreboundā symptoms of COVID-19 after completion of a 5-day course of Paxlovid.
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āRecommendation for Meningococcal Vaccine (MenACWY) for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)āFlorida Meningococcal Outbreak
CDPH/Health Advisory - June 6, 2022 - Since April 2022, in response to an ongoing outbreak of serogroup C invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Florida, CDC has encouraged gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) to: Receive quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY) if they live in Florida and talk with their healthcare provider about getting MenACWY if traveling to Florida. |
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| āHealthcare Provider Monkeypox Health Advisory, May 27, 2022: Monkeypox Virus Infection in the United States and Other Non-endemic Countries CDPH/Health Advisory - May 27, 2022 - The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) continues to work with local health departments (LHDs) and California healthcare providers on the ongoing domestic monkeypox situation.
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Monkeypox Virus Infection in the United States and Other Non-endemic Countries- Enhancing Surveillance in California as of May 20, 2022 CDPH/Health Advisory - May 20, 2022 - The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is issuing this advisory to supplement the information contained in the Health Alert issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) to provide additional guidance to California local health jurisdictions (LHJs) and health care providers.
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Seasonal Influenza Activity is Increasing in California May 17, 2022 CDPH/Health Advisory - May 17, 2022 - āCDPH is notifying health care providers that seasonal influenza activity is gradually increasing, with elevated activity in Central California.
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āCDPH Advises Parents and Caregivers Against Making or Feeding Homemade Infant Formula to Infants
CDPH/Health Advisory - May 13, 2022 - The impacts of the ongoing pandemic and the recent 2022 Abbott recall of certain powdered infant formula has led to periodic location- and product-based shortages of major brands of infant formula.
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