Your Fairfield Department of Health staff work to protect
your health through monitoring certain communicable diseases in Fairfield County, and alerting you if there is a potential outbreak.  For example, you may remember when e-coli disease was linked with a particular kind of fresh spinach grown in California. At health departments, experts called epidemiologists study the causes of diseases and how to control their spread in populations of people.       
     Recently, media has focused attention on E. coli. When there are reported cases to the Fairfield Department of Health, public health nurses and the epidemiologist work with doctors and other healthcare providers to better understand why this is happening and how to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. 

          Though the Fairfield Department of Health does investigate lab confirmed cases that are reported to them, they may not have ALL cases that might exist in a place or area, so it may be hard for the epidemiologist to conduct investigations linking all cases together.

      The Fairfield Department of Health does provide guidance and direction to controlling the spread of possible communicable disease by giving counsel, such as educational information below as to what they can do to avoid contracting the disease. 

 You may wish to visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.