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Plague

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Refer to the Australian Government, Department of Health's Plague fact sheet² for information for travellers and the public.

Public health management guidelines

Read Queensland Health guidelines for public health units³

Notification

Notification resources

List of all Pathological, clinical and provisional diagnosis notifiable conditions⁴
List of Public Health Unit⁵ contacts
Notifiable conditions report for Queensland doctors/clinicians (PHA S70) or person in charge of a Hospital (PHA S71)⁶ (PDF, 77kB) - if faxing notification, follow up by phone.
Notification criteria for pathology laboratories⁷ (PDF, 55kB)

Enhanced surveillance for public health units

Case report form⁸ (PDF, 504kB) - used by public health units to collect and manage more detailed information for enhanced case surveillance.

Condition information

Search this database of all notifable conditions and find:

control guidelines
notification requirements
health alert information
Resources

Communicable diseases contacts

Ph: +61 7 3328 9724 / 9728
Fax: +61 7 3328 9782
Page content queries⁹
Find: local public health unit⁵

Test results CDIS-NOCS-Support¹⁰

Quick links

List of notifiable conditions⁴
Notifiable Conditions Report Form for Queensland Doctors/Clinicians (section 70 PHA) or person in charge of a Hospital (section 71 PHA)⁶ (PDF 294 kB)
Time out poster¹¹ (PDF 1458 kB) - guidelines for minimum exclusion periods for cases and contacts attending schools, pre-schools and child care centres.
Public health unit⁵ contact details
Queensland notification criteria guidelines for laboratories⁷ (PDF 308 kB) - identifies the results pathology laboratories should notify to the Queensland Notifiable Conditions Register
Public Health Act 2005¹² - including Child Health - contagious conditions
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile¹³ (PDF 393 kB)
Accessing Medicinal Products held in the National Medical Stockpile FORM ONLY (PDF 393 kB) ¹⁴
Guidelines for prescribing oseltamivir for seasonal influenza in 2022¹⁵ (PDF 177 kB)
Guideline for calling Public Health Units (after business hours)¹⁶ (PDF 166 kB)

Links

https://www.health.qld.gov.au/disease-control/send-email?referrer=1215089
https://health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-plague-fs-basics.htm
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/plague/
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-practice/guidelines-procedures/diseases-infection/notifiable-conditions/list
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/contact-us/contact/public-health-units
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/444245/notif-conditions-rpt.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/documents/notif-criteria-guide.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/documents/cr-generic.pdf
mailto:cdu.online@health.qld.gov.au
mailto:CDIS-NOCS-Support@health.qld.gov.au
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ph/documents/cdb/timeout_poster.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/publichealthact/
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/672208/accessing-items-nmp.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/1401367/access-national-medical-stockpile.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/1160032/oseltamivir-seasonal-flu-2022.pdf
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/1441171/PHU-after-hours-contacts.pdf

Last updated: 20 July 2022