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Communicable Disease Guidelines
(PDF 114KB)
This booklet gives a basic introduction to communicable diseases for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners.
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Arboviral encephalitis (MVE, Kunjin, JE, other: specify) fact sheet
B
Bacterial vaginosis fact sheet
Barmah Forest virus infection fact sheet
Botulism fact sheet
C
Campylobacter fact sheet
Chickenpox pamphlet
Chlamydia fact sheet
Cholera fact sheet
Communicable Disease Guidelines Booklet
Cryptosporidiosis fact sheet
Cystitis fact sheet
E
E-coli (STEC/VTEC and HUS) fact sheet
F
Flu
Description : See also Influenza
Food poisoning fact sheet
G
Gastroenteritis fact sheet
Genital herpes fact sheet
Genital warts fact sheet
Giardia infection (Giardiasis) fact sheet
Gonorrhoea fact sheet
H
Hand, foot and mouth disease fact sheet
Head lice fact sheet
Hepatitis A fact sheet
Hepatitis B fact sheet
Hepatitis C fact sheet
Herpes Zoster
Description : See also Shingles
HIV/AIDS fact sheet
I
Influenza fact sheet
L
Listeria infection (Listeriosis) fact sheet
Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
Description : See also Chlamydia
M
Measles fact sheet
Meningococcal disease fact sheet
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Molluscum contagiosum fact sheet
Mumps
N
Norovirus infection fact sheet
P
Parvovirus fact sheet
Pertussis (Whooping cough) fact sheets
Pubic lice fact sheet
Q
Q Fever fact sheet
R
Ross River and Barmah Forest virus fact sheet
Description : Ross River virus factsheet for the public
Rubella fact sheet
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Salmonellosis fact sheet
Scabies fact sheet
Shigellosis (includes Dysentery) fact sheet
Shingles
Description : See also Chickenpox
Syphilis fact sheet
T
Thrush fact sheet
Trachoma fact sheet
Trichomoniasis fact sheet
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fact sheet
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Viral meningitis fact sheet
