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Communicable diseases are diseases you catch. This page deals with diseases passed from person to person (eg. head lice, measles), and diseases you get from insects (eg. mosquitoes), animals (eg. bats), and your environment (eg. water, waste).

Topics

• Animal borne diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Children's diseases
• Food borne diseases
• Hepatitis
• Immunisation
• Medication
• Meningococcal
• Mosquito borne diseases
• Sexual health
• Skin diseases
• Tuberculosis
• Viral diseases
• Water borne diseases
• Other diseases
• Related websites

Animal borne diseases

• Infection Control Guidelines for Animal Contact
• Leptospirosis Annual Report North Queensland 2002
• Leptospirosis Dairy Industry brochure
• Leptospirosis Workplace Health and Safety Guidelines for the Banana Industry
• Leptospirosis Workplace Health and Safety Guidelines for the Dairy Industry

Fact sheets

• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
  Avoiding Ill Health When Petting Farm Animals
• Bats Lyssavirus
• Brucellosis
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Head Lice
• Hydatid Disease
• Leptospirosis
• Psittacosis
• Q Fever
• Toxoplasmosis

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Bacterial diseases

Fact Sheets

• Enterohaemorrhagic E.Coli Infection
• Melioidosis
• Pseudomonas Infections
• Shigella
• Staphylococcal Diseases (Golden Staph)
• Streptococcal Diseases
• Tetanus

Children's diseases

• Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children Aged Under Five Year

Fact sheets

• Chickenpox
• Cytomegalovirus Infection (CMV)
• Diarrhoea in Young Children
• Gastroenteritis, Cleaning Up
• Haemophilus Influenza Type B Meningitis
• Influenza
• Measles
• Mumps
• Pneumococcal Disease
• Whooping Cough

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Food borne diseases

Fact sheets

• Enterohaemorrhagic E.Coli Infection
• Listeriosis
• Salmonellosis
• Toxocariasis
• Typhoid Fever
• Suspected Food-borne Illness

Hepatitis

• Body Piercing General
• Body Piercing Hervey Bay

Fact sheets

• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B

Immunisation

• Immunisation is Important for Children
• Immunisation is Important for Adults Too
• National Immunisation Program Schedule
  -  Queensland information for general practitioners
  -  National Immunisation Program Schedule for Queensland
  -  Information for parents - National Immunisation Program Schedule change for Queensland
• School Based Vaccination Program

Meningococcal

• Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Queensland, 2004

Fact sheets

• Antibiotics for Contacts of a Person with a Meningococcal Infection
• Meningococcal Disease

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Mosquito borne diseases

• Dengue Mosquito Breeding Prevention Guide
• Dengue Fever - website

Fact sheets

• Barmah Forest Virus
• Dengue Fever
• Malaria
• Ross River Virus
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Rainwater Tanks: A guide to keeping your tank safe

Sexual health

• Our dedicated HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Sexual Health website provides fact sheets on all sexually transmissible infections (STIs), blood borne viruses, common symptoms, education and school resources, related Queensland Health publications and links to other useful sites.
• I Stay Safe - Youth Sexual Health website.

Skin diseases

Fact sheets

• Ringworm/Tinea
• Scabies

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Tuberculosis

Fact sheet

1. Tuberculosis Disease Overview - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
2. Tuberculosis (TB) Medications - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
3. Tuberculosis Neonatal BCG Vaccination - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
4. Tuberculin Test (Mantoux Test) - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
5. Tuberculosis Vaccination - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
6. Tuberculosis Screening for Migrants - (English)
   Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese

Viral diseases

• Interim Queensland Health Pandemic Influenza Plan

Fact sheets

• Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
• Influenza: Keeping healthy
• Norovirus
• Parvovirus B19 Infection
• Rotavirus
• Rubella (German Measles)
• Shingles (Herpes Zoster)

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Water borne diseases

• Cyanobacteria in Recreational and Drinking Waters

Fact sheets

• Cryptococcosis
• Legionnaires' Disease

Other diseases

Fact sheets

• Accidental Needle Stick Injury in Public Places
• Anthrax
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
• Golden Staph - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Infections - Common Questions

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Related websites

• Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR)
• Australian Prescriber
• Be wise with medicines - Department of Health and Ageing
• Health Insite
• Health Insurance Commission
• Home Medicines Review
• National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE-UK)
• National Prescribing Service
• New South Wales Therapeutic Advisory Group (NSW TAG)
• Pharmaceutical Benefits Committees
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
• Pharmacy Board of Queensland
• Pharmacy Guild of Australia
• Quality Use of Medicines - Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
• Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project
• Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit
• Queensland Legislation
• Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Research Institute of Tuberculosis, J.A.T.A.
• SARS - Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
• SARS - Australian Department of Health and Ageing
• SARS - World Health Organisation
• Taking and sending PBS medicine overseas
• TB/HIV Research Laboratory, Brown University
• The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
• The STOP TB Partnership
• Therapeutic Goods Administration
• United States Food and Drug Administration
• University of Queensland School of Pharmacy
• WHO - TB Prevention and Control
• World Health Organisation - Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy

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Last Updated: 25 January 2008
Last Reviewed: 08 August 2007