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Avian influenza
Avian (or bird) flu: a disease caused by avian influenza viruses that occurs naturally among birds. In rare cases, it can be transmitted from birds to humans.
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Disaster preparedness fact sheets
Available in multiple languages, these fact sheets include information from "Cleaning a house after a flood" to "Finding hidden water supplies in an emergency" and more.
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Drinking water program
The Public Health Drinking Water Program works to prevent communicable disease and illness associated with drinking water from small public and individual private water systems.
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Food protection program
Information on how to start a food business, the inspection process, how to get a food worker permit, food safety fact sheets, how to issue a complaint on a food establishment, and more.
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Goat, private ownership
It is important to understand legal issues, disease concerns, goat husbandry, milking, and sanitation before you get a goat as a pet or for food production.
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Gypsy moths: using Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki (B.t.k.) pesticide
Fact sheet on human health risks of using B.t.k. pesticide to control gypsy moths.
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Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
A Health Impact Assessment involves a combination of procedures, methods and tools used to evaluate a policy, program or project as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and how these effects will affect different members of a population. HIA can help identify and consider the potential or actual health and equity impacts of a proposal on a given population.
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Illegal drug lab cleanups (meth labs)
Illegal drugs such as methamphetamine, ecstacy and methcathinone are made in clandestine labs. Learn about Public Health's role in the decontamination process.
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Illegal dumping
Illegal dumping is the dumping solid waste onto the surface of the ground or into the waters of the state, except at a permitted disposal site. Learn why this can be a public health problem.
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Pest control operator regulation
Registers and regulates businesses engaged in structural pest control, (i.e. businesses doing extermination or fumigation). Also licenses and regulates master pest control operators.
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Pet business permits
Permit information for commercial kennels, pet daycares and shops where pets are sold.
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Pet service regulations
Regulations and permit requirements for pet shops, commercial kennels, pet daycares, pet grooming businesses, animal shelters, and pet aquatic facilities. The purpose of these regulations is to assure that these establishments are maintained in a sanitary manner and in accordance with environmental standards to promote animal health and control the spread of disease to people.
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Plumbing and gas piping program
Plumbing can be difficult. Public Health - Seattle & King County recommends you hire a professional plumber. If you choose to do your own plumbing, please adhere closely to these instructions.
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Raccoon latrine: How to clean up
Raccoons establish community latrines—sites where they repeatedly deposit fresh feces and is very likely to contain roundworm eggs that can be hazardous to human health. If these infectious eggs are inadvertently swallowed by humans, other mammals, or birds, larvae (immature stage of worms) hatch out of the eggs and move into the organs of the body.
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Rat prevention
Rats are dangerous! They can ruin your food, destroy things in your home and start electrical fires. Rats and their fleas can carry disease. Learn tips for preventing rats getting into your building.
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Roadside Monitoring Program (PDF)
Monitors the King County Department of Transportation's Roadside Weed Control Program by taking samples to look for pesticide concentration.
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School plan review
Reviews and approves new school sites and plans for public and private schools kindergarten through high school grade 12.
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Seattle Sewer Baiting Program
The program responds to citizen complaints about rats in their toilet, tracks neighborhoods that have are impacted by sewer rat activity, performs routine inspections and baiting for rats in impacted neighborhoods, investigates suspected side-sewer breaks and educates communities about preventing and controlling rodent infestations when sewer rats are a concern.
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Solid waste
Fact sheets on how to dispose multiple types or waste in King County.
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Swimming pool and spa inspections and management
Information for owners/managers of public and semi-public pools and spas including the Plan Review process, printable rules and water recreation publications.
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Toxic hazards
Facts, guidelines and reports including the Tacoma Smelter Plume project, syringe disposal, indoor air quality, household hazardous chemicals, arsenic and lead, and more.
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Vashon-Maury Island Marine Recovery Area
A Marine Recovery Area is a specific designation under state law that establishes the goal of protecting, preserving and restoring shellfish harvest opportunities by assuring that property owners within the Marine Recovery Area inspect, and repair or replace as necessary, their On-Site Sewage (OSS) system.
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Wastewater program
Public Health helps to ensure that septic systems in King County are safe. The Wastewater Program provides educational, advisory and permitting services for owners of septic systems and certifications for several septic professionals.
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West Nile virus surveillance
West Nile virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and other animals. Learn about Public Health's West Nile virus surveillance activities in King County.
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Zoonotic Disease Program
Zoonotic diseases (also called zoonoses) are infectious diseases that can be spread from animals to humans. There are many zoonotic diseases, and their threat to human health is growing due to increasing global movement of people and animals and the effects of human populations expanding into previously undeveloped wildlife habitats. Climatic change may also lead to greater zoonotic diseases threats. |
