Information Resources

This page contains links to external agencies.  The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Public Health Sanitation Division is not responsible for the content of the following sites.

Bed Bug Information

Important!  Bed Bug Pesticide Health Advisory

EPA Registered Bed Bug Products

CDC Bed Bug Information

Bed Bug Information  - Public Health, Seattle & King County Health Department

Bed Bugs - Baltimore Health Department

Bed Bugs - Prevention and Control

EPA - pesticides for bedbugs

CDC - EHS - Bed Bugs CDC-EPA Joint Statement

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

• Safe Water

• CDC warns about water frogs.

Associations

• International Bottled Water Association

• National Environmental Health Association

• NSF International

• The Association of Pool and Spa Professionals

• Tox Town - National Library of Medicine:  An interactive guide to common toxic chemicals

• West Virginia Association of Sanitarians

• West Virginia Public Health Association

Mold and Moisture

• Mold In My Home

• Mold and Moisture - EPA - Information for homes and schools

Threat Preparedness Information

• Office of Environmental Health Services - A Health Guide for the Public in Disaster Planning and Recovery

• WV Bureau for Public Health - Division of Threat Preparedness

• West Virginia Office of Emergency Services CDC - Bioterrorism information

• EPA - Counter-terrorism information

• FDA - Food and drug safety and security information

• FDA - Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002

• NIH - National Library of Medicine (NLM)

  • Radiation Event Medical Management:  Guidance on Diagnosis & Treatment

  • WebWISER: Online & Downloadable Hazardous Substance Identification Resource

• National Response Team

  • Quick Reference Guide - Biological

  • Quick Reference Guide - Chemical

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Disasters & Emergencies

• White House

Local Health Department Web Sites

• Division of Local Health

• Berkeley County Health Department

• Boone County Health Department

• Braxton County Health Department

• Brooke County Health Department

• Cabell-Huntington Health Department

• Clay County Health Department

• Fayette County Health Department

• Gilmer County Health Department

• Grant County Health Department

• Greenbrier County Health Department

• Hampshire County Health Department

• Hancock County Health Department

• Hardy County Health Department

• Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department

• Jackson County Health Department

• Jefferson County Health Department

• Kanawha-Charleston Health Department

• Lewis County Health Department

• Lincoln County Health Department

• Logan County Health Department

• Marion County Health Department

• Marshall County Health Department

• Mason County Health Department

• Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department (Calhoun, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt & Wood Counties)

• Mineral County Health Department

• Mingo County Health Department

• Monongalia County Health Department

• Monroe County Health Department

• Morgan County Health Department

• Nicholas County Health Department

• Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department

• Pendleton County Health Department

• Pocahontas County Health Department

• Beckley-Raleigh County Health Department

• Randolph-Buckhannon Health Department

• Taylor County Health Department

• Tucker County Health Department

• Upshur County Health Department

• Wayne County Health Department

• Webster County Health Department

• Wetzel-Tyler County Health Department

• Wyoming County Health Department

 

Flood and Other Natural Disaster Information

• Please click here for our Natural Disaster Resources page.

Food Safety Information

• Please click here for our Food Safety Information Resources page.

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

• MRSA Information Flyer developed by the Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Program is now available. 

• How to Fight Staph information flyer, developed by the Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Program, is now available. 

More information on community-associated MRSA and staph bacteria is available from the CDC.

• Questions and Answers about MRSA in Schools - a CDC reference, is also available.

Onsite Sewage System / Wastewater Information

• National Environmental Services Center

• National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association

• NSF International

  • Residential Wastewater Treatment Systems - NSF/ANSI Standard 40 approved

• Wellowner.org - septic system information

Pest Control Information

• Mosquito Control - EPA

• Cockroach Control Manual - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Don't Let The Bugs Bite:  Mosquito Information - WV DHHR Infectious Disease Epidemiology

• Hantavirus:  Preventing Infection

• Managing Pantry Pests - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Pesticides - US EPA updates

• WV Department of Agriculture

Rabies

• CDC - Information about Rabies

  • What To Do If You Have a Potential Rabies Exposure

• WV Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DIDE) - Information about rabies including disease reporting information

• WV Dog and Cat Rabies Vaccination Law

Recreational Water Facilities - Swimming Pools

• CDC - Healthy Swimming

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Information

• CDC - Fact sheet about SARS

• CDC - SARS website

• World Health Organization (WHO) - SARS website

Solid Waste / Open Dump and Meth Lab Dump Reporting

• West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection

Water Well Links - Office of Environmental Health Services

• Certified Well Drillers in West Virginia

• Flood information:  cleanup tips, food and water safety

• Potable water hauling information

• Protecting your well

• Signs you should test your well

• Water Well Revolving Loan Fund - currently only available in Monongalia County

Water Well Links - other

• CDC - Drinking Water

• EPA - Ground Water and Drinking Water

• EPA - Guidance For What To Do After The Flood

• National Ground Water Association

• The Groundwater Foundation

• U.S. Geological Survey - Water Resources of the United States

• Water Systems Council

• Wellowner.org - an excellent resource for water well information

West Nile Virus Information

• CDC - information about WNV

• Don't Let The Bugs Bite:  Mosquito Information - WV DHHR Infectious Disease Epidemiology

• EPA - information about pesticides used to control mosquitoes

• National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)

• West Virginia Division Infectious Disease Epidemiology  - West Nile in West Virginia

West Virginia Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program

• WV Division Infectious Disease Epidemiology  (DIDE)

  • Map of DIDE Regional Epidemiologists