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Arbovirus

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Arbovirus in Florida brochure

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Arbovirus fact sheet and Hygiene

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Drain and Cover Card (English)

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Drain and Cover Card (Creole)

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Drain and Cover Card (French )

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Drain and Cover Card (Portuguese)

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Beaches

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Florida Healthy Beaches Program (2.1MB)

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Permitted Freshwater Bathing Places: A Safer Place to Swim (MB)

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Biomedical Waste

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Cleaning Up After An Injury or Accident in Your Home

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Safe Disposal of Sharps at Home (English)

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Safe Disposal of Sharps at Home (Spanish)

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Birth Defects

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Neural Tube Defects Notification Form

 

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Anencephaly

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Spina Bifida

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Hydrocephalus

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Congenital Heart Defects

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Cleft lip

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Cleft palate

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Down Syndrome

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Microtia

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

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Pregnancy Loss

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Body Piercing

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Body Piercing: Ten Frequently Asked Questions (1.6MB)

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Cancer Cluster Investigation

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Environmental Cancer Cluster Investigation

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Childhood Lead Poisoning

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening Guidelines book

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Keeping Your Children Safe from Lead Poisoning brochure (Creole)

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Keeping Your Children Safe from Lead Poisoning brochure (English)

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Keeping Your Children Safe from Lead Poisoning brochure (Spanish)

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Let’s be Lead Free food brochure (Creole)

 

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Let’s be Lead Free food brochure (English)

 

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Dishwashing

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Manual Dishwashing Steps sign (English)

 

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Drinking Water

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Drinking Water Systems Manual for Environmental Health Professionals

 

 

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Drinking Water: Is Yours Safe? (Brochure DH 150-383, 4/98)

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Guidelines for the Issuance of Precautionary Boil Water Notices

 

 

 

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Hurricanes and Tropical Storms: Your Drinking Water at Risk

 

 

 

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Water Terrorism

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What Should I Do if My Well is Flooded?

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Drinking Water Toxics

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FDOH Laboratory Drinking Water Analysis Report

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Nitrates and Newborns: the "Blue Baby" Disease

 

 

 

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Well Sampling Protocol Flowchart

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Environmental Health

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Environmental Health Services

 

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Florida Birth Defects Registry (FBDR)

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FBDR Reporting form

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FBDR Summary of Hospital and Physician Reporting Requirements (8.8 MB)

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Florida Birth Defects Registry

 

 

 

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Folic Acid - Prevention of Birth Defects

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Folic Acid Brochure (English)

 

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Folic Acid Brochure (Spanish)

 

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Folic Acid Resources

 

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Food Safety

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Preventing Food Contamination (4.7MB)

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Proper Glove Use sign (English)

 

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Group Care Facilities

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Residential Group Care

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Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB)

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HAB fact sheet

 

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HAB Surveillance Initial Screening Interview

 

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Hand Washing

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Handwashing Sign, Step by Step (English)

 

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Handwashing Sign, Step by Step (Spanish)

 

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Wash Your Hands Sign (English)

 

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Wash Your Hands Sign (Spanish)

 

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Hazardous Waste Sites

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Stress: Living Near a Hazardous Waste Site Can Be Stressful

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What is a Public Health Assessment? (2.1MB)

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Working for you at Hazardous Waste Sites fact sheet

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Health - general tips

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Keeping Healthy in Today’s World (1.5MB)

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Migrant Farmworkers

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Migrant Farmworker Housing: What you need to know (English)

 

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Migrant Farmworker Housing: What you need to know (Spanish)

 

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OSTDS

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Homebuyer's Guide to Septic Systems

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Dredging and Filling Associated with Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Program

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Septic Tank System Brochure

 

 

 

   

A Homeowner's Guide to Septic Systems

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Pesticides

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Pesticide Exposure Surveillance Program (PESP) fact sheet

 

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Physicians' Pesticide Incident Monitoring Report

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Public Health Tracking

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Cancer Risk Fact Sheet

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Cancer Risk Brochure (1.3 MB)

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Pufferfish

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Pufferfish identification and fact sheet

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Rabies Prevention and Control

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Rabies Prevention and Control

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Radiation

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Radiation Q&A booklet

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Bureau of Radiation Control - Program Descriptions

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Radon Measurement

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State Certified Radon Measurement Businesses

 

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State Certified Radon Mitigation Businesses

 

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Potential Sources of Retail Testing Devices,

 

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Recreational Camps

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Camps Brochure

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Septic Tank Systems

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Septic Tank Systems

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SUPER Act Water Testing

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SUPER Act Water Testing
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Tanning Facilities

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Indoor Tanning

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Tick-borne Diseases

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Tick Brochure

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Toxic Substance

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Toxic Substance Health Effects Resource Directory

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Food and Waterborne Disease and Reportable Disease

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Food and Waterborne Disease Bibliography

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List of Reportable Diseases

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Well Water

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Private Well Information

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Are You Well Aware?

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