Communicable Diseases

A communicable disease could affect many people, causing mild illness, hospitalization, or in rare cases, death. The San Francisco Bay Area has a high probability of a naturally occurring, mild to moderate pandemic.  People in the Bay Area travel more internationally and come into contact with many people on a daily basis.  For more information, visit the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Communicable Disease Control and Prevention website: www.sfcdcp.org.

Quick Tip:

• Wash your hands before and after cooking, serving or eating food, or treating a cut or wound; and after using the bathroom, changing a diaper, or coming into contact with a sick person.

For more information about not-so-everyday emergencies that San Francisco might face, visit our Hazard Mitigation Plan website at www.sfdem.org/hmp. The Hazard Mitigation Plan describes our City's natural and human-made hazards, identifies actions the City can take to reduce their effects, and establishes a process for implementing the plan.