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This section of the site provides information about:- Blood borne
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Diseases are those in which an infectious agent present in the blood of an infected individual is transmitted by contact with the blood of a susceptible individual.
From Diseases:
- Hepatitis B - the facts
- Hepatitis C - the facts
- HIV/AIDS - your questions answered
- Sexually transmissible infections - Safe sex
- Sexually transmissible infections - treatment is good, prevention is best
- Sexually transmissable infections - where to go for help
- Something borrowed, something new: Addressing increased rates of HIV and STI transmission among gay men in Victoria action plan 2008 - 2010
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- Enteric (gastro)
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Most commonly caused by an infectious agent entering the body through the mouth and intestinal tract. They are usually spread through contaminated food or water, or by contact with vomit or faeces.
From Diseases:
- Amoebiasis - the facts
- Campylobacteriosis
- Clostridium difficile
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastroenteritis - viral
- Giardiasis - the facts
- Hepatitis A - the facts
- Listeria - the facts
- Safe handling of reptiles and fish
- Salmonellosis - the facts
- Shigellosis - the facts
- Verotoxin-producing E. coli (VTEC) & Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
From Blue book:
- Amoebiasis
- Botulism
- Campylobacter infection
- Cholera
- Cryptococcal infection (cryptococcosis)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Food or water-borne illness
- Giardiasis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis E
- Listeriosis
- Rotaviral gastroenteritis
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Taeniasis
- Typhoid & paratyphoid fevers
- Verotoxin producing E. coli (VTEC), Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (ETEC), Shiga-like toxin producing E. coli (STEC))
- Viral gastroenteritis (not rotavirus)
- Viral haemorrhagic fevers
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- Sexually transmissible (STI)
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Diseases in which an infectious agent is transmitted from an infected individual to a susceptible individual through body fluids during sexual contact; including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.
From Diseases:
- HIV/AIDS - your questions answered
- Safe sex
- Sexually transmissible infections - treatment is good, prevention is best
- Sexually transnissable infections - where to go for help
- Something borrowed, something new: Addressing increased rates of HIV and STI transmission among gay men in Victoria action plan 2008 - 2010
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- Vaccine preventable
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Diseases that can be prevented by vaccines included on the National Immunisation Program. Other vaccine preventable (including cholera, hepatitis A, plague, rabies, bat lyssavirus, Japanese encephalitis, Q fever, tuberculosis, typhoid, and yellow fever) are not included in this group.
From Diseases:
- Avian Influenza (bird flu)
- Could it be whooping cough?
- H1N1 influenza 09 (human swine influenza)
- Hepatitis B - the facts
- Meningococcal - advice for medical practitioners
- Meningococcal disease - the facts
- Pertussis (whooping cough) - advice for clinicians
- Pertussis (whooping cough) - the facts
- Sexually transmissible infections - treatment is good, prevention is best
From Blue book:
- Chicken pox or shingles (varicella / herpes zoster)
- Diphtheria
- Haemophilus influenzae infections
- Hepatitis B
- Influenza
- Invasive pneumococcal disease
- Measles (rubeola)
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Poliomyelitis
- Rubella
- Streptococcal disease (Group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus)
- Tetanus
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Immunisation:
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Adolescent diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) - Year 10 school based immunisation program
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Adult/adolescent diphtheria, tetanus & pertussis
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Chickenpox (varicella)
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Chickenpox vaccination - Yr 7 school based immunisation program
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Childhood pneumococcal disease
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Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and poliomyelitis (polio)
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Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis B, poliomyelitis (polio) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
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Free whooping cough vaccine for new parents and partners of pregnant women
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Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
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Hepatitis B vaccine - Year 7 school based immunisation program
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Human papillomavirus vaccine - Year 7 Secondary school immunisation program
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Infant hepatitis B
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Influenza
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Keep your workplace free of flu - Immunise hospital staff against flu at work
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Measles, mumps & rubella
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Meningococcal group C disease
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National Immunisation Program schedule
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Pneumococcal disease
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Poliomyelitis (polio)
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Rotavirus
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Starting Primary School? School entry immunisation status certificates
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Tetanus & diphtheria
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- Vector borne
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Those in which the infectious agent is transmitted from an infected individual to a susceptible individual by an insect or other living character, such as by the bite of a blood-feeding vector or by other inoculation.
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- Zoonoses
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Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are those that can be transmitted under natural conditions from vertebrate animals to humans.
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- Other
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Includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, invasive meningococcal disease, legionellosis, leprosy, severe acute respiratory syndrome, smallpox, tuberculosis, other Mycobacterium infections and viral haemorrhagic fevers.
From Diseases:
- Clostridium difficile
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - the facts
- Legionnaire's disease - the facts
- Meningococcal - advice for medical practitioners
- Meningococcal disease - the facts
- Mycobacterium ulcerans - the facts
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Tablets for latent tuberculosis infection
- I have a positive skin test for tuberculosis – public health information
- Information for contacts of tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis - air travel for patients with TB
- Tuberculosis - provider resources
- Tuberculosis - Management, prevention and control of tuberculosis ...
- Tuberculosis - treatment information for patients
From Blue book:
- Ascariasis (round worm infection)
- Chlamydophila pneumoniae
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
- Croup or bronchiolitis
- Cytomegalovirus infection
- Erythema infectiosum (human parvovirus infection or slapped cheek disease)
- Guide to scabies management in residential care facilities
- Hand, foot & mouth disease
- Hand, foot & mouth disease information sheet
- Impetigo (school sores)
- Impetigo (school sores) information sheet
- Infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever)
- Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease)
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Melioidosis
- Meningococcal disease
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Molluscum contagiosum information sheet
- Mycobacterial infections (tuberculosis)
- Mycobacterium ulcerans
- Pinworm infection (threadworm)
- Ringworm or tinea information sheet
- Ringworm or tinea
- Scabies
- Scabies information sheet
- Slapped cheek infection information sheet
- Slapped cheek infection information sheet for pregnant women
- Smallpox (variola)
- Staphylococcal infections
- Streptococcal disease (Group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus)
- Viral haemorrhagic fevers
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