Disease Factsheets (A to Z)
These factsheets give basic information and advice about infectious diseases.
All links are now to information provided by Te Whatu Ora Health NZ or Ministry for Primary Industries – instead of PDF factsheets produced by Community and Public Health. Links to the Communicable Disease Control Manual are suitable for health professionals only.
Deletion of Community and Public Health infectious disease resources
Te Mana Ora | Community and Public Health produced a number of popular information sheets relating to common infectious diseases, such as chickenpox (shingles), hand, foot and mouth and slapped cheek.
These resources have been discontinued ahead of the National Public Health Service rolling out national information.
A card (MED0129 – shown) and poster (MED0130) from the Ministry of Health on infectious diseases still are available.
A and B
- Brucellosis (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
C
- Campylobacteriosis (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Chickenpox.
- Chikungunya.
- Cholera (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Conjunctivitis.
- Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Cryptosporidiosis.
D, E and F
- Dengue Fever.
- Diphtheria – pharyngeal (throat) or cutaneous (skin).
- Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever.
- Escherichia coli (E. coli).
G, H and I
- Gastroenteritis (Acute) [Communicable Diseases Control Manual].
- Giardiasis.
- Hand Foot and Mouth Disease.
- Haemophilus Influenzae (Hib).
- Hepatitis A.
- Hepatitis B.
- Hepatitis C.
- Hepatitis D, E or G (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- HIV and AIDS.
- Impetigo.
J, K and L
- Legionnaire’s Disease (Legionellosis).
- Leprosy (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Leptospirosis (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Listeriosis.
M, N and O
- Malaria (Communicable Diseases Control Manual).
- Measles.
- Meningococcal Disease (Meningitis).
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
- Mpox (Monkeypox).
- Mumps.
- Norovirus.
P, Q and R
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough).
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (PID) [Communicable Disease Control Manual].
- Poliomyelitis (Polio).
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) [Kids Health].
- Rheumatic Fever.
- Ross River Virus (Communicable Disease Control Manual)
- Rotavirus.
- Rubella.
S
- Salmonellosis (Communicable Disease Control Manual).
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (Communicable Disease Control Manual).
- Shigellosis (Communicable Disease Control Manual).
- Slapped Cheek.
- STEC/ VTEC: Toxin-producing Escherichia coli.
T to Z
- Tetanus.
- Tuberculosis (TB).
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever (Communicable Disease Control Manual).
- Yersiniosis (Ministry for Primary Industries).
- Zika Virus Disease.
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