Infection Control Prevention Guidance for Community Shelters Following Disasters
Community shelters provide housing for persons displaced from their homes following natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. In these settings, individuals share living space. Some individuals may have health problems, including acute or chronic infectious diseases. These recommendations provide basic infection control information that will help to prevent exposure to or transmission of infectious agents.
CDC Infection Control Prevention Guidance for Community Shelters Following Disasters

Key Facts about Infectious Diseases After a Hurricane
Although infectious diseases are a frightening prospect, widespread outbreaks of infectious disease after hurricanes are not common in the United States. Rare and deadly exotic diseases, such as cholera or typhoid, do not suddenly break out after hurricanes and floods in areas where such diseases do not naturally occur. Communicable disease outbreaks of diarrhea and respiratory illness can occur when water and sewage systems are not working and personal hygiene is hard to maintain as a result of a disaster