Stay Current on Health Alerts & Emergencies

To stay informed about current and emerging public health issues, subscribe to the following CDC alerts and learn about CDC Emergency Operations Center activations.

Subscribe to Alerts

• Health Alert Network (HAN)—Sign up for email updates and subscribe to the RSS feed of CDC’s primary method of sharing information about urgent public health incidents
• Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA)—Get the latest news and information related to emergency preparedness and response and emerging public health threats
• Epi-X: CDC’s Epidemic Information Exchange—Learn how you can join this secure CDC network that provides up-to-the-minute alerts, reports, and public health discussions
• CDC Current Outbreak List—Get email updates about infectious disease outbreaks being reported on by CDC
• CDC Email Subscriptions—Subscribe to receive the latest news about a wide variety of public health topics, such as emergency preparedness and response, diseases and conditions, and training
• Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) Newsletters—Stay informed and stay safe when a public health emergency happens. View the archives.
• @CDCemergency—Follow this Twitter feed for breaking news as it happens

Emergency Preparedness & Response Resources

• Emergency Preparedness & Response—Get information about how to stay safe during many types of public health emergencies
  • Training & Education
• State & Local Readiness—Learn how CDC can help public health departments improve their ability to respond to public health incidents and build better prepared communities
  • Online Technical Resource and Assistance Center (On-TRAC)—Use this secure platform for requesting technical assistance from CDC subject matter experts on public health preparedness
• CDC Support to Health Officials—Learn how CDC can help health officials respond to emerging local health concerns, and how they can communicate, consult, and partner with CDC
• Epi-Aid—Learn about this mechanism for requesting the short-term assistance of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service to respond to urgent public health problems
• Travel Health Notices—Search this site by country name or disease to find out about current health issues related to specific destinations
• CDC Online Newsroom—Access public health news, announcements, press releases, medical and disease happenings, story ideas, and photos in CDC’s digital gallery