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The CDC
Branch:
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works to prevent and control communicable diseases in the
South Australian community
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maintains a system of surveillance for communicable diseases
and risks for disease
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investigates outbreaks of communicable diseases
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responds to minimise the personal and social impact of the
communicable disease
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builds and maintains partnerships with communities and
health care providers to help control and prevent communicable diseases
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informs the community about the services it provides.
Important groups of communicable diseases include:
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Food-borne diseases
(illnesses caused by eating food contaminated by bacteria, viruses
or toxins such as salmonella or botulism)
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Vaccine-preventable diseases
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Vector-borne diseases
(transmitted to humans by an organism, such as a mosquito or tick,
that carries disease-causing micro-organisms from one host to
another)
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Zoonotic infections
(diseases of animals, such as rabies or psittacosis, that can be
transmitted to humans)
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HIV/AIDS and related diseases
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Quarantinable diseases
(diseases that require isolation or restriction of free movement of
an infected person to prevent the disease from spreading).
Branch
structure
The five main components of the branch are:
. . . which are assisted by the
Links within this site
A
summary of notifiable diseases in SA (updated weekly)
Public Health Bulletin
Immunisation
Index
You've Got What?
~ factsheets on prevention and control of notifiable
and other infectious diseases in children and adults
(Index of commonly used disease names
& useful links)
Links to www sites
Communicable
Disease Intelligence - Australia
National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
Communicable
Diseases Network
National Centre for Disease Control
National Communicable Disease Surveillance Strategy (PDF 141k)
National Health
and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
World
Health Organisation Report on Infectious Diseases: Removing Obstacles to Healthy Development
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