Disease Factsheets (A to Z)
These factsheets give basic information and advice about infectious diseases.
They will be progressively replaced with links to Te Whatu Ora Health NZ or Ministry of Health websites (where possible). Diseases where the PDF is replaced with a link will have an arrow head (instead of a PDF icon).
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 are available.
A and B
- Brucellosis [155KB].
C
- Campylobacteriosis [179KB].
- Chikungunya.
- Cholera [184KB].
- Conjunctivitis.
- Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease [155KB].
- Cryptosporidiosis [287KB].
D, E and F
- Dengue Fever.
- Cutaneous Diphtheria [212KB].
- Pharyngeal Diphtheria.
- Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever.
G, H and I
- Gastroenteritis (Acute Viral) [182KB].
- Giardiasis [186KB].
- Hand Foot and Mouth Disease.
- Haemophilus Influenzae (Hib).
- Hepatitis A.
- Hepatitis B.
- Hepatitis C.
- Hepatitis D [177KB].
- Hepatitis E [202KB].
- Hepatitis G [236KB].
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza [146KB].
- HIV and AIDS.
- Impetigo.
J, K and L
M, N and O
- Malaria [300KB].
- Measles.
- Meningococcal Disease (Meningitis).
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) [203KB].
- Mumps.
P, Q and R
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough).
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (PID) [276MB].
- Poliomyelitis (Polio).
- Rheumatic Fever.
- Ross River Virus [172KB].
- Rubella.
S
- Salmonellosis [175KB].
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) [174KB].
- Shigellosis [199KB].
- STEC/ VTEC: Toxin-producing Escherichia coli.
T to Z
Latest public health updates
- Protect yourself against Legionnaire's disease
- Information on typhoid fever from the Ministry of Health
- Find out about Intra Uterine Devices (IUDs) from Family Planning
Latest public health alerts
- Monkeypox is now a notifiable disease - 8th June 2022
- National Health Advisory: Monkeypox clinical update - 25th May 2022
- COVID-19 in “managed isolation and quarantine facility” staff - 5th November 2020
Featured links
- mpox no longer a public health emergency of international concern (World Health Organisation)
- WHO Chief declares end to COVID-19 as a global health emergency
- COVID-19 winter surge package 2022: Rapid review (Ministry of Health)
Helpful links
Page last updated: 06/12/2023