Texas County Government
This governing body runs each Texas county and includes a county judge and four commissioners.
What is the Commissioners Court?
This disease was declared eradicated in the U.S. in 1979.
What is smallpox?
An “epi curve” shows this over time.
What is the number of cases?
This viral disease, often spread by bats and skunks, is a major zoonotic concern in Texas.
What is rabies?
This city is the county seat and home to Texas State University.
What is San Marcos?
Unlike many states, Texas counties do not operate these public institutions, often run by cities or special districts.
What are public schools?
The 1918 pandemic was caused by this type of virus.
What is the influenza virus?
This term refers to the number of new cases in a population during a specific time.
What is incidence?
This Texas DSHS branch focuses on diseases transmitted from animals to humans.
What is Zoonosis Control?
Hays County is part of this fast-growing Texas metro area.
What is the Austin-Round Rock metro area?
Texas counties follow this type of executive model, where power is distributed among independently elected officials.
What is a plural executive model?
This federal agency was created in 1946 to protect public health.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
The first identified case in an outbreak is called this.
What is the index case?
This flea-borne disease, once associated with rats, still appears in Texas cities.
What is murine typhus?
This Texas Ranger and Mexican–American War officer is the county’s namesake.
Who is John Coffee "Jack" Hays?
This official in Texas counties often leads emergency management efforts and presides over the commissioners court.
Who is the County Judge?
This infamous study involved unethical research on Black men with syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Study?
This type of study follows a group over time to observe outcomes.
What is a cohort study?
This insect transmits Chagas disease, which is monitored by Texas public health.
What is the kissing bug (Triatomine)?
Hays County was officially formed in this year.
What is 1848?
Texas has this many counties—more than any other U.S. state.
What is 254?
This 2010 law expanded access to healthcare and public health funding.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
This measure compares disease risk between exposed and unexposed groups.
What is relative risk?
This program vaccinates wildlife against rabies using bait dropped from planes.
What is the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program (ORVP)?
As of 2023, this is the estimated population of Hays County.
What is 280,000 ish?