Communicable Disease Prevention & Control

The Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Program is made up of the Communicable Disease Unit: responsible for follow up and to provide health education and consultation to health region staff, community agencies, and health professionals in the control, treatment, and management of communicable diseases.

Our program keeps statistics and records on reportable diseases according to the requirements of the Ministry of Health. The program staff work with BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), the Public Health Agency of Canada, and other health authorities to detect unusual numbers of infectious diseases from a specific strain of pathogens, investigate to determine the source of the pathogen and to limit the spread of infectious communicable diseases.

Visit our Health Facility Disease Outbreaks page to stay up to date with the active outbreaks in our facilities. The page is updated when new outbreaks are declared.

The Communicable Disease program works to reduce the incidence and prevalence of communicable diseases in Interior Health by providing relevant public health data, information and reports to decision makers, professionals, and health-care workers in an effort to promote actions that will result in the timely prevention and control of communicable diseases throughout our region.

High validity and good comparability of communicable disease data are imperative to reach this goal.