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Infectious Diseases

Our goal is to give you the tools and knowledge to help prevent infectious diseases. We also work to keep our community safe and healthy.

Check out our resources to learn about common diseases. Find out how they spread and how to protect yourself. You can find information about vaccines, good hygiene, and ways to prevent outbreaks.

CK Public Health is here to help you stay informed and make healthy choices. When we work together, we can keep our community safe and strong.

Diseases of Public Health Significance

Anthrax	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	Food poisoning, all causes	Pneumococcal disease, invasive
Botulism	Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)	Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals	Powassan virus
Brucellosis	Amebiasis	Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases	Psittacosis/Ornithosis
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types	Anaplasmosis	Gonorrhea	Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
Diphtheria	Babesiosis	Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal	Rubella
Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive	Blastomycosis	Hepatitis, viral 1. Hepatitis B 2. Hepatitis C	Rubella, congenital syndrome
Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive	Campylobacter enteritis	Influenza	Salmonellosis
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome	Candida auris (C. auris)	Legionellosis	Shigellosis
Hemorrhagic fevers, including: 1. Ebola virus disease 2. Marburg virus disease 3. Lassa Fever 4. Other viral causes	Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), infection or colonization	Leprosy	Syphilis
Hepatitis, viral 1. Hepatitis A	Chancroid	Listeriosis	Tetanus
Measles	Chickenpox (Varicella)	Lyme Disease	Trichinosis
Meningococcal disease, invasive	Chlamydia trachomatis infections	Meningitis, acute 1. Viral 2. Other 3. Bacterial	Tuberculosis
Novel coronavirus diseases, including: 1. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) 2. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) 3. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)	Cholera	Mumps	Tularemia
Plague	Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals	Ophthalmia neonatorum	Typhoid Fever
Poliomyelitis, acute	Cryptosporidiosis	Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)	Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection including: Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
Q Fever	Cyclosporiasis	Paratyphoid Fever	West Nile Virus Illness
Rabies	Echinococcus Multiocularis infection	Pertussis (Whooping Cough)	Yersiniosis
Smallpox and other Orthopoxviruses including Monkeypox	Encephalitis, including: 1. Post-infectious 2. Vaccine-related 3. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis 4. Unspecified 5. Primary, viral