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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) - whole of government fact sheet
  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

• Does the Measles Mumps Rubella vaccine (MMR) cause autism?
• Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Children Aged Under Five Year
• Protect your baby from whooping cough (brochure)
• Time out poster (can be printed in A3)

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
• National Immunisation Schedule for Adults and Children
• Free whooping cough vaccine for new parents (checklist)
• Protect your baby from whooping cough (brochure)
• Protect your baby from whooping cough (poster)
• 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

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
• 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 - Department of Health and Ageing
• Quality Use of Medicines Mapping Project - Final Report
• 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 - 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
• WHO - Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy

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Last Updated: 28 October 2009
Last Reviewed: 05 November 2009

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