Public Swimming Pool and Spa Registration
All public swimming pools must be registered with the Subsurface Wastewater Program, including those associated with day care facilities.
When submitting an application for review of a public swimming pool to the Division of Environmental Health, the applicant and/or designer must include the following for a complete application:
Updated Influenza Submission and Reporting Guidance
The 2024-2025 influenza season has been particularly active. Health care facilities are seeing an increased number of individuals for testing, which is resulting in a dramatic increase in test specimens sent to Maine's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory (HETL) for subtyping and reported to the Maine CDC. To reduce the testing volume at HETL, the Maine CDC is making changes to submission and reporting requests.
Ebola Outbreak Caused by Sudan virus in Uganda
Please review this information from the U.S. CDC on the Ebola outbreak caused by Sudan virus (Orthoebolavirus sudanense) in Uganda and the federal response to it. As of February 10, 2025, there are no known cases of Ebola in Maine or elsewhere in the United States.
New Tuberculosis Reporting System
The Maine CDC is excited to announce that we are modernizing our Tuberculosis (TB) reporting system.
Currently, inactive TB (also known as Latent TB Infection or LTBI) cases and suspect and confirmed active TB cases are reported through a combination of faxed referral forms and phone calls. The new system is an online form that can be used to report inactive TB cases and suspect and confirmed active TB cases.
U.S. CDC: Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized Patients
Please take a moment to review this information on accelerating subtyping of influenza A in hospitalized patients in the U.S.
To date, no human cases of H5N1 have been detected in Maine. Risk to the general public remains low. People with job- or recreation-related exposures to infected animals are at increased risk of H5N1 infection, especially when those exposures happen without use of appropriate personal protective equipment.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1): Reminders for Clinicians and Veterinarians
U.S. CDC has announced the first severe case of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) (also called HPAI, avian influenza, or bird flu) in the country, discovered in Louisiana, and another severe case was recently reported in Canada. There have been no known human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) in Maine. Human and animal exposures to and infection with avian influenza remains a possibility.
U.S. CDC: First Case of Clade I Mpox Diagnosed in the United States
Please take a moment to review this information from U.S. CDC on the first detection of clade I mpox in the United States. Maine has not detected any cases of clade I mpox.
Maine CDC Reports Human EEE Case
This week Maine CDC reported a human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a Penobscot County resident. This is the first human EEE case reported in Maine since 2015. The purpose of this health advisory is to remind clinicians to consider testing for mosquito-borne arboviruses in patients presenting with unexplained flu-like symptoms, encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, or high fever. In Maine, mosquitoes can spread EEE, Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), and West Nile virus (WNV).