Communicable Disease Manual

Communicable Disease Control Manual
Date of publication: June 1998

The Communicable Disease Control Manual has been developed to provide information on the prevention and control of communicable diseases in New Zealand and to provide national protocols for their control. Its purpose is to help public health staff respond to communicable diseases.

For each disease, a response protocol – specifying the minimum actions that should follow notification or reporting– has been developed. It is intended that Medical Officers of Health and health protection staff in Public Health Services will be the principal users of this manual. The diseases covered by the manual are divided among vaccine-preventable, food- or waterborne, rare diseases, and other notifiable diseases.

Revisions of the manual will be required when the current public health legislation review has been completed and various changes in legislation have been passed. Sections of the manual will also be revised as practices in disease control and prevention change, and a procedure for recording amendments is given.

I hope you will find this manual a valuable tool in responding to communicable diseases, and that it will help with our long-term goal of better control of communicable diseases.

Gillian Durham
Director of Public Health

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