SFDPH Health Update: Healthy Super Bowl 50 January 26, 2016 News, Public Health, SF Dept of Public Health health update, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Super Bowl 50 0 The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is working to support Super Bowl activities to ensure that visitors and local residents have a safe, positive, and healthy experience. Game day is Sunday February 7 in Santa Clara, but many additional activities, celebrations, and visitors from around the globe will be in San Francisco from January 30 through February 8. A few potential public health issues include: Influenza virus is active both locally and nationally, and visitors will be arriving from regions with extensive influenza activity (see http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/). Norovirus is active locally and nationally. Norovirus is highly contagious and spreads through close person-to-person contact, contaminated food or water, contaminated surfaces, objects and utensils, and via aerosol particles from vomitus (see http://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/php/index.html). Inebriation could be an issue during Super Bowl events. The SF Sobering Center provides safe sobering for acutely intoxicated individuals. The Sobering Center is expanding capacity to augment its existing 24/7 sobering services, and will have an overflow area during the peak drinking times and days. To refer clients, please contact the center at (415) 734-4227. San Francisco physicians are asked to: Encourage and provide influenza vaccination for all persons 6 months of age and older who have not already received 2015-16 vaccine. Emphasize standard precautions and common sense measures that reduce disease transmission, for example, staff and patients should avoid touching their eyes, nose, and mouth, use proper hand hygiene, practice cough etiquette, and stay home and limit contact with others when ill. Surfaces contaminated with vomit, diarrhea, or respiratory secretions should be immediately cleaned and disinfected. Report communicable diseases and outbreaks in a timely manner to the SF Communicable Disease Control Unit (CDCU) so that CDCU can follow-up to prevent further spread. A list of legally-reportable conditions, along with forms and time windows for reporting, is available at www.sfcdcp.org/diseasereporting.html. CDCU may be reached 24/7 by calling (415) 554-2830. Be on the lookout for temporal or geographic clusters of illness that could be clues to an intentional release of a biologic agent, and immediately report cases to CDCU 24/7 by phoning (415) 554-2830. Click here for the SFDPH health update issued on January 26, 2016. Comments are closed.
