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Kitsap Public Health District unveils surveillance dashboard and warns of rising measles and pertussis activity
Summary
Kitsap Public Health District presenters described a new regional communicable-disease surveillance dashboard and summarized local activity: measles exposures tied to national outbreaks, a pertussis surge with school clusters, ongoing TB work, and routine rabies post‑exposure coordination.
Liz Davis, program manager for immunizations and general communicable diseases, and Wendy Inouye, communicable-disease epidemiologist, gave the Board of Health a detailed briefing on surveillance, response and a new public dashboard designed to share regional data.
Davis described the surveillance cycle — detection, investigation, risk assessment and response — and stressed that many responses require intensive, time-consuming work by case investigators and nurses. She said the district evaluates animal exposures for rabies and coordinates post-exposure prophylaxis; in 2024 the district evaluated 110 animal exposures and recommended rabies post-exposure prophylaxis for 40 residents.
Inouye summarized national and local measles trends and local…
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