We can offer advice on how to prevent notifiable and communicable diseases from spreading. Communicable diseases are usually diseases of an infectious nature that must be reported to a health officer or local government authority by law.
If you suspect an infectious disease it is important to find out what to do. If needed, we will go on to investigate known cases of such diseases, in partnership with other agencies.
Literature and information is available from the Infectious and Communicable Diseases Department, which you can contact using the email address and telephone number in the right-hand menu on this page.
We offer advice on...
- Acute Encephalitis
- Acute Poliomyelitis
- Anthrax
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Dysentery (Amoebic of Bacillary)
- Food poisoning or suspected food poisoning
- German Measles - see Rubella
- Head Lice
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal Septicaemia (without Meningitis)
- Mumps
- Ophthalmia Neonatorum
- Paratyphoid Fever
- Plague
- Polio – see Acute Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Relapsing Fever
- Rubella
- Scabies
- Scarlet Fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid Fever
- Typhus
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever
- Viral Hepatitis - see Hepatitis
- Whooping Cough
- Yellow Fever