HEALTH TOPICS
BY DISEASE GROUP
1. RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
• INFLUENZA
• AVIAN INFLUENZA AND OTHER ANIMAL INFLUENZAS
• LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE
• SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS)
• TUBERCULOSIS
2. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, INCLUDING HIV AND BLOOD-BORNE VIRUSES
 CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION
 GONORRHOEA
 HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION
 HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION
 HIV/AIDS
 SYPHILIS
3. FOOD- AND WATERBORNE DISEASES AND ZOONOSES
• ANTHRAX
• BOTULISM
• BRUCELLOSIS
• CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS
• CHOLERA
• CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS
• ECHINOCOCCOSIS (HYDATID DISEASE)
• SHIGA TOXIN/VEROCYTOTOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI (STEC/VTEC) INFECTION
• GIARDIASIS
• HEPATITIS A
• LEPTOSPIROSIS
• LISTERIOSIS
• SALMONELLOSIS
• SHIGELLOSIS
• TOXOPLASMOSIS (CONGENITAL)
• TRICHINELLOSIS
• TULARAEMIA
• TYPHOID/PARATYPHOID FEVER
• VARIANT CREUTZFELDT–JAKOB DISEASE (VCJD)
• YERSINIOSIS
4. EMERGING AND VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES
 MALARIA
 PLAGUE (YERSINIA PESTIS INFECTION)
 Q FEVER
 SMALLPOX
 VIRAL HAEMORRHAGIC FEVERS
 HANTAVIRUS
 CRIMEAN–CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER
 DENGUE FEVER
 RIFT VALLEY FEVER
 EBOLA AND MARBURG VIRUS
 LASSA FEVER
 CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER
 WEST NILE FEVER
 YELLOW FEVER
5. VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES
DIPHTHERIA
INVASIVE HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE DISEASE
INVASIVE MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE
INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE
MEASLES
MUMPS
PERTUSSIS
POLIO
RABIES
RUBELLA
TETANUS
6. ANTIMICROBIAL-RESISTANT PATHOGENS AND
HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
o ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
o ANTIMICROBIAL CONSUMPTION
o HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS - HAI