Rapid Response Teams CHFS-Overview Main ContentAppropriate discipline-specific team members investigate cases to determine the actual extent and potential spread of the disease. Communication among responders and with principal contacts is maintained until all infected persons have been treated, all required contacts have been made and all at-risk persons have been adequately interviewed and/or received preventive treatment. Team stand down only when all members agree that the disease has sufficiently been controlled.Membership RequirementsEach member of a local health department Epi Rapid Response Team is required to: Have supervisor and LHD director approval and submit official sign-off sheet;Attend an ERRT beginner's training session (usually two days);Attend the Application Exercise Day in the first year as an ERRT member;Attend, as a refresher, an Application Exercise Day once every four years;Complete at least four hours of contact hours annually;Attend at least two ERRT annual conferences every four years.ERRT Resources Food and Water: Collection, Packaging and Laboratory Testing Guidelines. Norovirus Guidance: Nursing Homes. Foodborne Illness information for providers. Foodborne Illness information for providers/disease chart. ERRT Members Documents ERRT Membership Requirements ERRT Sign Off SheetExternal Links: CSTE North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness NACCHO - Public Health Preparedness EXCITE Healthcare Associated Infections - CDC Detectives in the Classroom Studying Populations Supercourse in Epi WV Infectious Disease Program CDC- Case Studies Epi Info and EpiData Analysis NIOSH Chemical Hazard Pocket Guide Focus on Field Epi Understanding EPI: a Evolving Text 2013 ERRT Conference Bat Exposure Investigation Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Fungal Infections Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV) Investigation Multistate Salmonella Online Survey FB Outbreak Investigations Rabies and Bats TB Outbreak and Data Management 2012 ERRT Conference 2012 Tornado Injury Surveillance Campylobacteriosis and Poultry Industry in Kentucky Challenges and Resources for Cluster Investigations Gastrointestinal Outbreak-Tournament Imported Measles Case Investigation, Louisville Jackson County Foodborne Outbreak Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Rabies Revisited 2013 Shigella in Northern Kentucky Viral Hepatitis in Kentucky 2010 ERRT Conference ERRT Training Agenda 2007 ERRT Conference HIPAA and Public Health Hepatitis A Outbreak Norovirus 2006 ERRT Conference Introduction to the Public Health Approach Field Epi In Practice Norovirus Streptococcus Necrotizing Fasciitis Foodborne Outbreak Associated with Fried Rice, Hardin County 2005 ERRT Conference Communicable Diseases: The Reporting Law and Incidence in Southeastern Kentucky Communicable Diseases: The Reporting Law and Incidence in Southeastern Kentucky, Part 2 Evaluation of Reportable Disease and Surveillance in KY by County and Region Summary of Current Bioterrorism/Outbreak/Emerging Public Health Threat Surveillance Activities Dog Bite Septicemia: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) from Capnocytophaga Septicemia in an Asplenic Patient Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Rash Investigation Mercury Exposure in Larue County Available on request Kentucky Public Health Laboratory (available upon request) Mercury - EPA Emergency Response Case Studies (available upon request) 2004 ERRT Conference Kentucky - Electronic Disease Surveillance System (KY-EDSS) Epidemiology of Poisoning in Kentucky The Epi Team Diary Gastro Enteritis Outbreak in a Residential Complex for the Elderly Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Investigation Q Fever in a Family Salmonella typhimurium Casey County, KY Typhoid Fever Outbreak Documentation CHFS-Service-Instructions Relative Content Additional Information Contact Information 40 Related Agencies Department for Public Health Environmental Management Branch Food Safety Branch Milk Safety Branch Public Health Preparedness Branch Public Safety Branch Radiation Health Branch