Delaware Health Alert Network Notifications 2003
2003: December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February |
December
- Delaware Health Update - Update on Public Health Precautions
Related to Orange Threat Level: Part 4
December 31, 2003 DHAN #66 - Delaware Health Update - Update on Public Health Precautions
Related to Orange Threat Level: Part 3
December 31, 2003 DHAN #65 - Delaware Health Update - Update on Public Health Precautions
Related to Orange Threat Level: Part 2
December 31, 2003 DHAN #64 - Delaware Health Update - Update on Public Health Precautions
Related to Orange Threat Level: Part 1
December 31, 2003 DHAN #63 - Delaware Health Advisory - Request for Reports on Deaths
Among Children w/Lab Confirmed Influenza Virus Infection
December 23, 2003 DHAN #62 - Delaware Health Advisory - Delaware Raises Threat Level
to Orange
December 22, 2003 DHAN #61 - Delaware Health Advisory - Threat Level Orange - Hospital
Preparedness
December 22, 2003 DHAN #60 - Delaware Health Update - Influenza in DE and CDC Information on Antiviral
Medications
December 19, 2003 DHAN #59 - Delaware Health Advisory - Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan
December 17, 2003 DHAN #58 - Delaware Health Advisory - CDC Assessing Influenza Vaccine
December 5, 2003 DHAN #57 - Delaware Health Advisory: New Cases of Influenza Reported
in Delaware
December 2, 2003 DHAN #56
November
- Delaware Health Advisory: Hepatitis A Health Alert
November 17, 2003 DHAN #55 - Delaware Health Advisory: Evidence of Influenza Reported
in Delaware
November 14, 2003 DHAN #54 - Delaware Health Advisory: Anthrax Report
November 7, 2003 DHAN #53
October
- Delaware Health Update: Influenza
October 30, 2003 DHAN #52 - Delaware Health Advisory: SARS Guidelines for Health
Professionals Available
October 28, 2003 DHAN #51 - Delaware Health Advisory: Ricin at South Carolina U.S.
Postal Facility
October 23, 2003 DHAN #50 - Delaware Health Advisory: Reports of Blue Discoloration
and Death in Patients Receiving Enteral Feedings Tinted with the Dye, FD&C Blue No. 1
October 16, 2003 DHAN #49
September
- Delaware Health Advisory: Avoiding Injury During Storm
Clean-Up
September 19, 2003 DHAN #48 - Delaware Health Advisory: Coping With Stressful Emergencies
September 19, 2003 DHAN #47 - Delaware Health Advisory: Hurricane Recovery: Safety
From The Start
September 19, 2003 DHAN #46 - Delaware Health Advisory: Water Damage Requires Careful
Attention
September 19, 2003 DHAN #45 - Delaware Health Advisory: Avoid Viruses and Disease
During and After Floods
September 19, 2003 DHAN #44 - Delaware Health Advisory: Tetanus Shots Available Sept.
17 to Protect Emergency Workers
September 17, 2003 DHAN #43 - Delaware Health Advisory: First 2003 Human Case of West
Nile Virus
September 5, 2003 DHAN #42
August
- Delaware Health Update: Legionnaires' Disease
August 26, 2003 DHAN #41 - Delaware Health Advisory: Eastern Equine Encephalitis
and West Nile Virus
August 5, 2003 DHAN #39
July
- Delaware Health Advisory: Additional Legionnaires'
Disease Cases Bring Total to 15
July 30, 2003 DHAN #38 - Health Advisory: Rabies: Laurel and Kent County, Delaware
July 24, 2003 DHAN #37 - Delaware Health Advisory: Tuberculosis Investigation
Continues at Nursing Home
July 23, 2003 DHAN #36 - Delaware Health Advisory: Increased Reports of Legionnaires
Disease in Delaware and Mid-Atlantic States
July 10, 2003 (Updated July 11, 2003) DHAN #35 - Delaware Health Advisory: First Crow Tested Positive
For West Nile Virus
July 1, 2003 DHAN #33
June
- Delaware Health Update: Monkeypox-Like Infections
June 11, 2003 DHAN #31 - Delaware Health Update: Revised Case Definition For
SARS
June 10, 2003 DHAN #30 - CDC Health Advisory: Suspected Monkeypox-Like Infections
In Persons Having Contact With Prairie Dogs
June 8, 2003 DHAN #29
May
- DPH Health Update: Updated Threat Level Orange Information
May 23, 2003 DHAN #28 - DPH Health Update: Updated SARS Information
May 23, 2003 DHAN #27 - Delaware Hospital Alert
May 20, 2003 DHAN #26 - CDC Broadcast “Increasing Clinician Preparedness
For SARS”
May 7, 2003 DHAN #25 - CDC Health Update: Laboratory Testing For SARS
May 6, 2003 DHAN #24
April
- Delaware Health Advisory: Avian Influenza A (H7N7)
Infection - Enhanced Influenza Surveillance In The United States
April 28, 2003 DHAN #23 - CDC Health Updates: SARS Update And CDC Interim Guidance
On Use Of Respirators To Prevent Transmission of SARS
April 21, 2003 DHAN #22 - CDC Health Advisory: CDC Accepts ACIP Recommendations
Regarding Smallpox Vaccinations And Cardiac Events And Distributes Revised Pre-Vaccination Education Materials
April 1, 2003 DHAN #21 - Information Notice Broadcast: Preventing The Spread
Of SARS
April 1, 2003 DHAN #20
March
- CDC Health Update: Updated Interim U.S. SARS Case
March 29, 2003 DHAN #19 - CDC Health Advisory: Interim Guidance On Infection Control
Precautions For Patients With Suspected SARS And Close Contacts In Households
March 29, 2003 DHAN #18 - CDC Health Update: Information For People Who Have Recently
Received The Smallpox Vaccine
March 28, 2003 DHAN #17 - Delaware Health Advisory: Theft Of Herbicide Containing
Paraquat - Health Impact Of Exposure To Paraquat
March 28, 2003 DHAN #16 - CDC Health Advisory: Interim Domestic Guidance For Management
Of Exposures To SARS For Healthcare And Other Institutional Settings
March 27, 2003 DHAN #15 - CDC Health Advisory: Smallpox: People With Known
Cardiac Disease Should Not Be Vaccinated
March 26, 2003 DHAN #14 - CDC Health Update: Supplemental Information: Novel
Coronavirus Linked To SARS
March 24, 2003 DHAN #13 - CDC Health Update: CDC Lab Analysis Suggests New Coronavirus
May Cause SARS
March 24, 2003 DHAN #12 - CDC Health Update: Updated Interim U.S. SARS Case Definition
March 22, 2003 DHAN #11 - CDC Health Update: Preliminary Clinical Description
Of SARS
March 22, 2003 DHAN #10 - CDC Health Update: Interim Laboratory BioSafety Guidelines
For Handling And Processing Specimens Associated With SARS
March 22, 2003 DHAN #9 - CDC And EPA Water Advisory In Response To High Threat
Level
March 21, 2003 DHAN #8 - CDC Health Update: Infection Control Precautions For
SARS
March 20, 2003 DHAN #7 - CDC Health Update: SARS Update With Delaware Specific
Information
March 20, 2003 DHAN #6 - Delaware Health Alert: Delaware Orange Hospital Alert
March 19, 2003 DHAN #5 - Delaware Health Alert: Code Orange High Threat Alert
March 19, 2003 DHAN #4 - CDC Health Update: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) Update
March 19, 2003 DHAN #3b - CDC Health Advisory: Information Regarding The Current
WHO Investigation Of Atypical Pneumonia
March 15, 2003 DHAN #3a - CDC Health Advisory: Interim Guidance For State and
Local Health Departments – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
March 15, 2003 DHAN #3 - CDC Health Update: Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Disease
Outbreak Reported
March 12, 2003 DHAN #2b - CDC Health Update: HHS Proposes Smallpox Vaccination
Compensation Plan
March 6, 2003 DHAN #2a
February
- CDC Advisory: National Terrorism Threat Level Increase
February 7, 2003 DHAN #2 - Delaware Health Alert: Health Alert For Medical Community
February 7, 2003 DHAN #1a - Delaware Health Alert: Threat Level Orange
February 7, 2003 DHAN #1

