Health Alerts

The Snohomish County Health Department Health Officer sends alerts via email to local health care providers. Alerts cover current local, regional or national health threats and important updates on medical care and protocols. Alerts are written as needed to cover urgent or emergent health issues.

Health care providers can request to be added to our distribution list by emailing the communications team. Please send with the subject “Request to be added to Health Advisories” and include your name, job title, affiliation and the best email address to receive advisories.

  1. Health Advisory: Hepatitis A case in food worker at Everett and Lake Stevens food businesses

    There may be public exposures of customers who ate food from two Taco Bell locations on May 22-23. Read on...

  2. Health Advisory: Marburg Virus Disease Outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania

    Be aware of the potential risk of imported cases to the U.S. from two confirmed outbreaks of Marburg virus disease (MVD), one each in Equatorial Guinea and in Tanzania. Read on...

  3. Health Advisory: Continued increase in syphilis cases including congenital syphilis cases

    The case rate for primary and secondary syphilis in Snohomish County has doubled since 2019. From 2015 to 2020, no cases of congenital syphilis were reported. In 2021 and 2022, multiple cases have been reported each year. Read on...

  4. Health Advisory: Frozen strawberries recalled due to Hepatitis A risk to consumers

    Consider administering postexposure prophylaxis to susceptible (unvaccinated) persons who have consumed recalled strawberries or fruit blend from Scenic Fruit Company in the previous 14 days. Read on...

  5. Health Advisory: Waiver and patient limits removed to increase buprenorphine access

    Be aware that SAMHSA and the DEA have eliminated the requirement for providers to have a DATA 2000 (X) waiver to prescribe buprenorphine containing medication products for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Read on...

  6. Health Advisory: Increase in Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) Shigellosis in the U.S.

    Read on...

  7. Health Advisory: Measles Exposure at Large Gathering in Kentucky

    Be aware of a confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated adult who, while infectious, attended a large religious gathering at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. The gathering was attended by about 20,000 people. Read on...

  8. Health Advisory: Chikungunya Virus in Paraguay and Risk to Travelers

    Consider chikungunya virus infection in travelers returning from Paraguay and surrounding countries with acute onset of fever and polyarthralgia. Read on...

  9. Health Advisory: Tools and resources for increasing access, prescribing, & uptake of COVID treatment

    Treatment for COVID-19 is under-utilized in higher risk patients with acute COVID-19 infection despite having been shown to reduce hospitalization and death in these high-risk populations when started within 5 days of symptom onset. Read on...

  10. Health Advisory: Updates on COVID-19 Prevention and Therapeutics for Treatment

    Read on...
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