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The mosquito-borne viral encephalitides (arboviral diseases) are a group of acute central nervous system illnesses. The diseases of this group that occur in New Mexico are western equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, and West Nile virus.

Provides a wealth of information about plague for New Mexico physicians and healthcare workers including agent, mode of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, common symptoms, specific forms of plague, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, and reporting.

This helpful document provides a wealth of helpful facts about HIV/AIDS for Women.

This helpful document explains how to complete the HIV/AIDS confidential case reporting form properly.

This helpful document provides a wealth of helpful facts about HIV/AIDS for Hispanics.

Hoja Informativa VIH/SIDA Para los Hispanos

This helpful document provides a wealth of helpful facts about HIV/AIDS for African Americans.

The most effective way to control bed bugs in your home is through a combination of chemical measures and heat treatments applied by a Pest Management Professional (PMP). Unfortunately, the service of a PMP can be costly. So we are providing information on how to control a bed bug infestation on your own.

There is no silver bullet for eliminating bed bugs. They present a challenge to modern pest control that the industry is still struggling to meet. To make up for the lack of chemical power we have for battling this insect, additional people and tools must be involved. Bed bug success stories usually involve people who live and work in a building (including a pest management professional) coming together as a team to battle this pest.

Once bed bugs have been confirmed in the living area of an individual or family, there may be good reason to move them to a different area or apartment while the infested one is treated. However bed bugs may be transferred with personal belongings, causing more trouble in the new living space.

Bed Bugs are a difficult problem for apartments and multi-family units. It can be very expensive to treat an infested property. However, not addressing the problem will only make the infestation worse and more costly for you. One of the most important things property owners/managers can do is to educate their residents about bed bugs.

This publication covers bed bug prevention, management and control, education and awareness, and is specifically geared toward public agencies and private or public housing administrators and their facilities management teams. It is applicable to other types of living situations, though techniques and recommendations may need to be adapted.

Second-hand smoke, even in small amounts, is proven harmful to children and adults. It can bring on an asthma episode. Children are most frequently exposed to second-hand smoke in the car and in the home. A top protection is to eliminate tobacco in the car and home. The best way to protect a child from second-hand smoke is eliminating smoking in the car and home.

Provides all the information required to investigate rabies cases including a summary of the disease, agent details, mode of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, diagnosis, prophylaxis, surveillance, control measures, and more.

This helpful document provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV/AIDS case reporting.

Health care providers are the eyes and ears of public health. Reporting makes it possible to detect failures of work place health and safety protection and prevent further illness and injury due to work. This document explains the most frequently asked questions we receive regarding occupational notifiable conditions reporting.

Before placing vaccines in a new refrigerator unit, follow these simple steps to ensure success.

This fact sheet explains what the plague is, how people get it, common forms of plague, how to protect yourself, and more.

Protéjase de la peste

Audiologist section of the newborn hearing screening program manual.

This glossary of terms makes understanding the terminology used when talking about newborn hearing screening much easier. It explains such terms as auditory brainstem response, audiogram, audiologist, early intervention, and dozens more.

This form makes it easy for physician’s to track a baby’s hearing screening follow-up tasks from birth to 6 months old.