Health Alert Network

When an event threatens the health of Minnesotans, fast, efficient, and reliable communication to those responding to the event can prevent illness and save lives.  Minnesota’s Health Alert Network (HAN) enables public health staff, tribal governments, health care providers, emergency workers, and others working to protect the public to exchange information during a disease outbreak, environmental threat, natural disaster, or act of terrorism.

Minnesota's Health Alert Network (Video: 2 minutes)

• Health Alert Network for Hospitals, Clinics, LTC and Partners (PDF)
  Fact sheet about the Health Alert Network program. June, 2024.

2024

• Health Advisory: Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in Patients with Bloody Diarrhea (PDF) | (Word)
  November 14, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Marburg Virus Outbreak in Rwanda – Actions for Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  October 4, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Metro Measles Outbreak and Vaccine Recommendations (PDF) | (Word)
  August 22, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Increase in Human Parvovirus B19 (PDF) | (Word)
  August 16, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Shortage of Becton Dickinson (BD) BACTEC™ Blood Culture Bottles (PDF) | (Word)
  August 5, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Measles – Possible Community Transmission in MN (PDF) | (Word)
  July 25, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Outbreaks of Pertussis in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  May 30, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Travel-Associated Measles Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  May 24, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Meningococcal Cases and Travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) (PDF) | (Word)
  May 21, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Report Suspect Measles Cases Immediately (PDF) | (Word)
  May 7, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Avian Influenza Testing in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  May 2, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Doxycycline for Prevention of STIs (PDF) | (Word)
  April 17, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: National Increase in Invasive Meningococcal Disease Serogroup Y (PDF) | (Word)
  April 8, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Infantile Krabbe Result Requires Immediate Action (PDF) | (Word)
  February 26, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Campylobacter Outbreak in Hennepin and Ramsey Among MSM (PDF) | (Word)
  February 15, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Travel-Associated Measles - MN at Risk for More (PDF) | (Word)
  February 7, 2024
   
• Health Advisory: Syphilis in Pregnancy (PDF) | (Word)
  January 25, 2024

2023

• Health Advisory: Xylazine Overdose in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  December 11, 2023
   
• Health Advisory: Nirsevimab for RSV Prevention - Supply Issues (PDF) | (Word)
  October 24, 2023
   
• Health Advisory: Bicillin Shortage for Syphilis Treatment (PDF) | (Word)
  August 1, 2023
   
• Health Advisory: Legionnaires' Disease in Grand Rapids, MN (PDF) | (Word)
  July 19, 2023
   
• Health Advisory: Animal Anthrax Cases in Kittson County (PDF) | (Word)
  July 18, 2023, for Kittson, Roseau and Marshall counties. 
   
• Health Advisory: CDC HAN Potential Risk for New Mpox Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  May 18, 2023
   
• Health Advisory: Take-Home Lead Exposure (PDF) | (Word)
  February 10, 2023, for Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Sherburne, Isanti, Chisago, Washington, and Mille Lacs counties.
  • News Release: MDH urges workers at Anoka ammunition plant to have children tested for lead

2022

• Health Advisory: Legionnaires’ Disease in Duluth Area (PDF) | (Word)
  December 21, 2022, for Carlton, Cook, Lake, and St. Louis counties.
   
• Health Advisory: Flu and Oseltamivir (PDF) | (Word)
  December 16, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Group A Streptococcus Infections (PDF) | (Word)
  December 8, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Ebola Monitoring: Outbreak in Central Uganda (PDF) | (Word)
  October 19, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Monkeypox (MPX) Testing and Treatment (PDF) | (Word)
  October 13, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Be on Alert for Measles, Cases Continue to Occur in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  October 12, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Palivizumab and Early Season RSV Activity (PDF) | (Word)
  October 4, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Tenth Travel-Associated Measles Case (PDF) | (Word)
  September 21, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Monkeypox Reporting, Testing, and Vaccination (PDF) | (Word)
  July 13, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Travel-Associated Measles Cases in Hennepin County (PDF) | (Word)
  June 13, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Monkeypox (PDF) | (Word)
  May 24, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: Pediatric Hepatitis, Adenovirus and Gastrointestinal Illness (PDF) (Word)
  April 26, 2022
   
• Health Advisory: COVID-19 Therapeutics in Minnesota (PDF) (Word)
  April 6, 2022

2021

• Health Advisory: First COVID-19 Omicron Variant Case in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  December 2, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Increasing Influenza Activity in College & University Settings (PDF) | (Word)
  November 30, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: CDC Health Advisory: Meliodiosis Source Implicated (PDF) | (Word)
  October 25, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Campylobacter Outbreak in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties Among MSM (PDF) | (Word)
  September 2, 2021
   
• Hospital Admission Screening for CPO and C. auris (PDF) | (Word)
  August 26, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: FDA Recall of Ultrasound Gel Due to Bukholderia cepacia complex (PDF) | (Word)
  August 5, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Use of Palivizuma and Off-Season RSV Activity (PDF) | (Word)
  August 4, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: REGEN-COV Approved for Post-Exposure Prophylactic Use (PDF) | (Word)
  August 2, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Legionellosis in Albert Lea (PDF) | (Word)
  July 9, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Brucellosis Outbreak Associated with Soft Cheese in Twin Cities (PDF) | (Word)
  July 1, 2021. Targeted to Twin Cities Metro: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties.
   
• Health Advisory: Melioidosis in Minnesota Not Associated with Travel (PDF) | (Word)
  June 30, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Increased RSV and Other Non-SARS-CoV-2 Viral Activity (PDF) | (Word)
  June 30, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Pause on Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Bamlanivimab/Etesevimab (PDF) | (Word)
  June 28, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis After Johnson & Johnson Vaccine (PDF) | (Word)
  April 13, 2021
   
• Health Alert: Immediate Pause on Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Administration (PDF) | (Word)
  April 13, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance (PDF) | (Word)
  March 25, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: HIV Outbreak and Syphilis Concern in Duluth Area (PDF) | (Word)
  March 4, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  March 2, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Quarantine for Vaccinated Health Care Workers (PDF) | (Word)
  February 16, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Minnesota Resource Allocation Platform (MNRAP) Launch (PDF) | (Word)
  February 9, 2021
   
• Health Advisory: Gonococcal Treatment Change (PDF) | (Word)
  January 26, 2021

2020

• Health Advisory: Quarantine Duration for SARS-CoV-2 Contacts (PDF) | (Word)
  December 7, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Bamlanivimab for Mild/Moderate COVID-19 Patients (PDF) | (Word)
  November 16, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Antigen-based Tests for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (PDF) | (Word)
  October 14, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: STD Testing Kit Shortage (PDF) | (Word)
  October 9, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: New Testing Priorities for SARS-CoV-2 (PDF) | (Word)
  July 30, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Severe Lung Injury Associated with Vaping June-July 2020 (PDF) | (Word)
  July 24, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Testing Asymptomatic Persons for SARS-CoV-2 (PDF) | (Word)
  June 25, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: New Syphilis and Hepatitis A Cases in the Tri-County Area (PDF) | (Word)
  June 22, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Mass Gathering Testing for SARS-CoV-2 (PDF) | (Word)
  June 2, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Expanded Testing for SARS-CoV-2 (PDF) | (Word)
  May 20, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) (PDF) | (Word)
  May 15, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Expanded SARS-CoV-2 Testing (PDF) | (Word)
  April 23, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Updated SARS-CoV-2 Testing (PDF) | (Word)
  April 1, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Non-Pharmaceutical Treatments of COVID-19 (PDF) | (Word)
  March 30, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Newborn Screening Continues During COVID-19 Outbreak (PDF) | (Word)
  March 25, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Shortage of SARS-CoV-2 Testing (PDF) | (Word)
  March 17, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare (PDF) | (Word)
  March 13, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Testing Urgent Notice (PDF) | (Word)
  March 12, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Listeriosis Outbreak Along Hwy 94 (PDF) | (Word)
  March 10, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Evaluating and Testing for COVID-19 in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  March 5, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Updated COVID-19 Guidance and Lab Testing (PDF) | (Word)
  March 2, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: HIV Outbreak in Persons Who Inject Drugs (PWID) (PDF) | (Word)
  February 3, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Updated Patients Under Investigation (PUI) Interim Guidance (PDF) | (Word)
  January 31, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China (PDF) (Word)
  January 22, 2020
   
• Health Advisory: Mercury-containing Skin Lightening Product Associated with Acute Health Effects (PDF) (Word)
  January 14, 2020

2019

• Health Advisory: Legionellosis in Albert Lea (PDF) | (Word)
  October 10, 2019. Targeted to Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, and Waseca.
   
• Health Advisory: Update on Severe Acute Lung Injury Among Patients Who Report Vaping (PDF) | (Word)
  September 11, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Increase in Blastomycosis Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  September 5, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Severe Acute Lung Disease Among Youth Who Report Vaping (PDF) | (Word)
  August 13, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Cyclospora Increase (PDF) | (Word)
  July 9, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Typhoid Fever in Ramsey County (PDF) | (Word)
  June 18, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Spike in Drug Overdoses (PDF) | (Word)
  June 7, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: National Hepatitis A Outbreaks (PDF) | (Word)
  May 20, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Shortage of Pharmaceuticals Used to Prevent and Treat Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections (PDF) | (Word)
  April 16, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: Zika Travelers Update (PDF) | (Word)
  March 11, 2019
   
• Health Advisory: University Tuberculosis Outbreak (PDF) | (Word)
  January 22, 2019

2018

• Health Advisory: Increase in Pediatric Acute Flaccid Myelitis Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  October 4, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: TB Risk in Adult Day Care Centers and Updated MDR TB Contact Screening Recommendations (PDF) | (Word)
  September 24, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Third Travel-Associated Measles Case (PDF) | (Word)
  September 14, 2018. Targeted to Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties.
   
• Health Advisory: Second Travel-Associated Measles Case (PDF) | (Word)
  August 23, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: New Human Rabies Treatment Products (PDF) | (Word)
  August 9, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Travel-Associated Measles Case in Hennepin County (PDF) | (Word)
  August 7, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Increase in Cyclosporiasis Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  June 15, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Vectorborne Disease Risk Season is Here (PDF) | (Word)
  May 31, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Health Care Providers - Think E. Coli O157 Among Patients with Bloody Diarrhea (PDF) | (Word)
  May 10, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: All Hospital-Treated Drug Overdose Deaths Requested by MDH (PDF) | (Word)
  May 3, 2018
   
• Health Advisory: Significant Bleeding Associated with Contaminated Synthetic Cannabinoids (PDF) | (Word)
  April 5, 2018
  • Exposure to Synthetics? Please Call Poison Center (PDF)
    Poster on synthetic drugs and bleeding that can be hung in ED.
     
• Health Advisory: Enhanced Infectious Disease Surveillance during Super Bowl (PDF) | Word (2 pages)
  January 18, 2018

2017

• Health Advisory: Seasonal Influenza A(H3N2) Activity and Antiviral Treatment Recommendations (PDF: 3 pages) | (Word: 3 pages)
  December 28, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Exercise - H8N4 Confirmed in Minnesota Resident (PDF) | (Word)
  This is an exercise. SW Region. November 16, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Tuberculosis Outbreak Continues (PDF) | (Word)
  July 31, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Mealses Outbreak Continues (PDF) | (Word)
  July 14, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Tularemia Case in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  June 21, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Mumps Outbreak at U of MN -Twin Cities (PDF) | (Word)
  May 23, 2017 **
   
• Health Advisory: Shortage of Penicillin to Treat Syphilis (PDF) | (Word)
  May 18, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: False Blood Lead Results (PDF) | (Word)
  May 18, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Measles Outbreak Expanded Recommendations (PDF) | (Word)
  May 4, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Measles Outbreak Update and Revised Vaccine Recommendations (PDF) | (Word)
  April 18, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Varicella (Chickenpox) Outbreak in North Metro (PDF) | (Word)
  April 4, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Drug Overdose Deaths Linked to Carfentanil (PDF) | (Word)
  March 31, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: MDR TB Cluster Investigation (PDF) | (Word)
  March 7, 2017
   
• Health Advisory: Syphilis on the Rise, Outbreak in Drug Users (PDF) | (Word)
  February 27, 2017

2016 Alerts

• Health Advisory: NTM Infections Following hCG Injections (PDF) | (Word)
  December 27, 2016
   
• Pertussis Increase in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  December 22, 2016
   
• Test for Varicella (Chickenpox) (PDF) | (Word)
  December 7, 2016
   
• Hepatitis A Linked to Frozen Strawberries (PDF) | (Word)
  November 9, 2016. Corrected.
   
• Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections Following Surgery (PDF) | (Word)
  October 4, 2016
   
• Measles Exposure in Metro (PDF) | (Word)
  September 14, 2016
   
• Legionellosis Cases (PDF) | (Word)
  September 9, 2016 **
   
• Cryptosporidiosis in Waterpark (PDF) | (Word)
  August 19, 2016
   
• Zika Transmission in Florida (PDF) | Word)
  August 1, 2016
   
• Recall of Docusate Sodium (PDF) | (Word)
  July 20, 2016
   
• Salmonella Outbreak Associated with Live Poultry Contact (PDF) | (Word)
  June 21, 2016
   
• Diarrheal Illnesses Outbreak Associated with Farm Visits (PDF) | (Word)
  May 26, 2016
   
• Travel-Associated Measles Case in Hennepin County (PDF) | (Word)
  May 3, 2016 **
   
• Lead Exposure (PDF) | (Word)
  April 1, 2016
   
• Peak Influenza Activity (PDF) | (Word)
  March 17, 2016
   
• Zika Testing Update (PDF) | (Word)
  February 24, 2016
   
• Mumps in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  February 10, 2016
   
• Zika in Minnesota (PDF) | (Word)
  January 27, 2016
   
• Zika Virus Infection (PDF) | (Word)
  January 19, 2016
   
• Syphilis Testing of ALL Pregnant Women (PDF) | (Word)
  January 14, 2016 **

2015 Alerts

• Syphilis in Women (PDF) | (Word)
  December 7, 2015
   
• Acute Flaccid Myelitis (PDF) | (Word)
  October 21, 2015
   
• Salmonella Outbreak Associated with Chipotle Restaurants (PDF)
  September 10, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Meningococcal Disease Among MSM (PDF)
  July 16, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Unknown Drug Outbreak and Reporting (PDF)
  June 26, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: MERS-CoV Update (PDF)
  June 12, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Liberia Removed from Ebola Virus Disease Monitoring (PDF)
  May 28, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Travel-associated Measles Case in Minnesota (PDF)
  May 8, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Toxoplasmosis Reporting in Minnesota (#1565778) (PDF)
  March 17, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Measles Case on UMN Twin Cities Campus (#1527074) (PDF)
  January 29, 2015. Only sent to 7 county metro.
   
• Health Advisory: Multi-State Measles Outbreak Associated with Disneyland (#1520521) (PDF)
  January 26, 2015
   
• Health Advisory: Influenza in Health Care Settings (#1502340) (PDF)
  January 8, 2015

2014 Alerts

• Health Advisory: Mumps Testing in Minnesota (#1479076) (PDF)
  December 18, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Drifted Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses in Minnesota (#1460719) (PDF)
  December 4, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Hospital Agreement for Ebola (#1446792) (PDF)
  November 26, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Ebola: Revised CDC PPE Guidance (PDF)
  October 21, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: CDC: Ebola Virus Disease - Evaluating Patients (PDF)
  October 3, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Acute Neurological Illness - Minnesota Surveillance (PDF)
  September 29, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Enterovirus D68 (PDF)
  September 9, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Evaluation Guidelines of Minnesota Patients Suspected of Having Ebola (PDF)
  August 4, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa (PDF)
  July 29th, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Cyclosporiasis Causes Prolonged Diarrhea (PDF)
  July 2, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Safe Practices for Blood Glucose Screening Events (PDF)
  June 10, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: New WHO Polio Vaccination Requirement for Travel (PDF)
  June 3, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Emerging Diseases Associated with Travel (PDF)
  May 21, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Tick-Borne Disease Risk High (PDF)
  May 20, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Second Laboratory-Confirmed Measles Case in Minnesota (PDF)
  May 9, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Laboratory-Confirmed Measles Case in Minnesota (PDF)
  April 24, 2014
   
• Health Alert: Lassa fever confirmed in traveler returning to Minnesota from West Africa (PDF)
  April 4, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Listeria Exposure from Parker's Farm Products (PDF)
  April 3, 2014
   
• Health Advisory: Novel Influenza - Recommendations for Minnesota (PDF)
  January 17, 2014

Health Alerts are primarily distributed via email, from MDH to local and tribal health departments, to hospitals, clinics and other partners. If you are not receiving Health Alert emails, please talk to your supervisor, your local health department or contact MDH staff via the EPR Comment form.

** These messages required additional reporting of response rates by local and tribal health departments.