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Health Advisories 2025
February 27, 2025
September 24, 2024
LAC DPH Health Update: Mpox Clade I & II – Prevention in the US and Before Travel
September 19, 2024
LAC DPH Health Update: Cluster of Locally Acquired Cases of Dengue in Los Angeles County
September 17, 2024
LAC DPH Health Alert: Human Infections with Baylisascaris Procyonis (Raccoon Roundworm)
September 9, 2024
LAC DPH Health Alert: Locally Acquired Case of Dengue in Los Angeles County
May 21, 2024
May 10, 2024
February 1, 2024
October 23, 2023
LAC DPH Health Alert: First Locally Acquired Case of Dengue in California Detected in Pasadena
October 6, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Prevent Severe RSV in Infants with Maternal or Infant Immunization
October 4, 2023
September 14, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: 2023-2024 COVID-19 Vaccines
September 6, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Immunize Infants and Older Adults to Protect them from Severe RSV
July 3, 2023
LAC DPH Health Information: Certifying Deaths Due to COVID-19
February 24, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Xylazine in Illicit Drugs Increasing Overdose Risks
November 16, 2022
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Increases of Flea-Borne Typhus
November 10, 2022
October 20, 2022
LAC DPH Health Update: Fall Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccination
September 9, 2022
LAC DPH Monkeypox Update: Severe Disease, Testing, and Vaccine Eligibility
September 8, 2022
LAC DPH COVID-19 Updates: New Booster Recommendations, Observation Period, Co-Administration
August 23, 2022
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Recent Report of Polio Case in Rockland County, New York
August 12, 2022
August 1, 2022
July 27, 2022
LAC DPH COVID-19 Update: Therapeutics for SNFs, and Novavax
July 21, 2022
LAC DPH Health Update: Monkeypox Updates Including Provider Webinar this Friday, July 22
May 27, 2022
LAC DPH Health Alert: Contaminated Ecstasy and Accidental Drug Overdoses
August 18, 2021
Advisory: Inappropriate Exemptions May Subject Physicians to Discipline
December 4, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: COVID-19 Vaccine Update
October 29, 2020
LAC DPH Health Alert: Wound Botulism Cases Associated with Heroin
October 28, 2020
July 28, 2020
July 18, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
July 17, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Resurgence of Candida auris in Los Angeles County
July 13, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Health Officer Order Requiring Diagnostic Testing Access
July 13, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Rifapentine Shortage and Detection of Nitrosamine Impurity
July 4, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Increasing COVID-19 Cases; Isolation and Quarantine; Testing Access
June 2, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: COVID-19 Updates
June 1, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Tuberculosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 14, 2020
May 12, 2020
May 8, 2020
May 1, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: COVID-19 Revised Isolation Period and Clinical Symptoms
April 22, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Expanding Testing and Universal Source Control
April 16, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: SARS-CoV-2 Serology
April 7, 2020
April 2, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: Revised COVID-19 Exposure Period
March 30, 2020
Notice to Providers Prescribing Controlled Substances Re: Telehealth
On March 16, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published a COVID-19 Information Page on the Diversion Control Division website, providing guidance on prescribing controlled substances. The public health emergency exemption allows the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine without a prior in-person exam.
Learn more by viewing the telemedicine section of the DEA's COVID-19 Information Page or read the COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions: Medication-Assisted Treatment and Telehealth from the Department of Health Care Services.
March 28, 2020
LAC DPH Advisory: Ambulatory Patients with COVID-19, Healthcare Personnel Monitoring
March 25, 2020
LAC DPH Alert: Preserving Critical Supplies and Resources; New COVID-19 Mortality Reporting
March 19, 2020
March 11, 2020
LAC DPH: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing and Revised Infection Prevention Guidance (updated March 14)
March 6, 2020
LAC DPH: COVID-19 Clinical Laboratory Testing, Reporting, PPE, HCW Exposure Monitoring
March 4, 2020
LAC DPH: COVID-19 Guidance-Optimizing N95 Supplies and Managing Mild Illness
February 29, 2020
LAC DPH: Revised Evaluation Criteria for COVID-19
February 1, 2020
CDC Health Update: Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
September 24, 2019
August 28, 2019
CDPH Health Update: Vaping-Associated Pulmonary Injury
May 24, 2019
LAC DPH Health Update: Measles Situation Update and Revised Clinical Guidance
April 26, 2019
LAC DPH Health Update: Measles Prevention in Los Angeles County
April 23, 2019
LAC DPH Health Alert: Measles Outbreak in Los Angeles County
October 21, 2016
Issue Brief: Meningococcal Disease Outbreak Advisory
February 2, 2016
Issue Brief: Zika Virus Infection
February 6, 2015
Issue Brief: Measles Outbreak in Los Angeles County
October 23, 2014
Issue Brief: Ebola Resources
Additional Resources
Mpox vaccine information and resources for L.A. Care contracted providers.
Coronavirus information and resources for L.A. Care contracted providers.
L.A. Care providers can access thePULSE, our informative e-newsletter throughout the year.