Disease Factsheets (A to Z)
These factsheets give basic information and advice about infectious diseases.
They will be progressively replaced with links to the NZ Ministry of Health website (where possible). Diseases where the PDF is replaced with a link will have an arrow head (instead of a PDF icon).
A and B
- Brucellosis – revised February 2017 [246KB]
C
- Campylobacteriosis [283KB]
- Chikungunya – revised February 2017 [278KB]
- Cholera – revised July 2018 [282KB]
- Conjunctivitis [304KB]
- Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease [242KB]
- Cryptosporidiosis – revised April 2017 [326KB]
D, E and F
- Dengue Fever – revised February 2017 [274KB]
- Cutaneous Diphtheria [274KB]
- Pharyngeal Diphtheria [273KB]
- Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever
G, H and I
- Gastroenteritis (Acute Viral) – revised September 2017 [250KB]
- Giardiasis – revised May 2017 [324KB]
- Hand Foot and Mouth Disease [314KB]
- Haemophilus Influenzae (Hib) – revised April 2017 [314KB]
- Hepatitis A – revised May 2017 [242KB]
- Hepatitis B – revised September 2017 [241KB]
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D – revised March 2017 [238KB]
- Hepatitis E – revised March 2017 [242KB]
- Hepatitis G – revised September 2017 [236KB]
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza – revised May 2017 [241KB]
- HIV and AIDS – revised February 2017 [327KB]
- Impetigo [360KB]
J, K and L
- Legionnaire’s Disease (Legionellosis) [357KB]
- Leprosy – revised May 2017 [277KB]
- Leptospirosis – revised April 2017 [278KB]
- Listeriosis (Ministry of Health)
M, N and O
- Malaria – revised April 2017 [376KB]
- Measles (Ministry of Health)
- Meningococcal Disease (Meningitis) – revised May 2017 [281KB]
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) – Revised October 2017 [283KB]
- Mumps – revised January 2018 [242KB]
P, Q and R
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) – revised May 2018 [274KB]
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (PID) – revised March 2017 [276MB]
- Poliomyelitis (Polio) – revised June 2017 [225KB]
- Rheumatic Fever – revised February 2017 [341KB]
- Ross River Virus [165KB]
- Rubella and Congenital Rubella – revised August 2017 [226KB]
S
- Salmonellosis – revised August 2017 [280KB]
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) – revised August 2017 [240KB]
- Shigellosis – revised May 2018 [282KB]
- STEC/ VTEC: Toxin-producing Escherichia coli– revised August 2019 [322KB]. Formerly E. coli O157 (VTEC/STEC).
T to Z
- Tetanus – revised August 2017 [264KB]
- Tuberculosis (TB) – revised October 2017 [278KB]
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever – revised September 2017 [281KB]
- Yersiniosis – revised September 2017 [280KB]
- Zika Virus Disease [328KB]
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