Diseases

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Blood borne
Diseases are those in which an infectious agent present in the blood of an infected individual is transmitted by contact with the blood of a susceptible individual.
Enteric (gastro)
Most commonly caused by an infectious agent entering the body through the mouth and intestinal tract. They are usually spread through contaminated food or water, or by contact with vomit or faeces.
Sexually transmissible (STI)
Diseases in which an infectious agent is transmitted from an infected individual to a susceptible individual through body fluids during sexual contact; including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.
Vaccine preventable
Diseases that can be prevented by vaccines included in the National Immunisation Program Schedule. Non-scheduled diseases that are also vaccine preventable (including cholera, hepatitis A, meningococcal disease, plague, rabies, bat lyssavirus, Japanese encephalitis, Q fever, tuberculosis, typhoid, varicella-zoster infections (chickenpox and shingles) and yellow fever) are not included in this group.
Vector borne
Those in which the infectious agent is transmitted from an infected individual to a susceptible individual by an insect or other living character, such as by the bite of a blood-feeding vector or by other inoculation.
Zoonoses
Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are those that can be transmitted under natural conditions from vertebrate animals to humans.
Other
Includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), invasive meningococcal disease, legionellosis, leprosy (Hansen's disease), Mycobacterium infection, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), smallpox, tuberculosis and viral haemorrhagic fevers.
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