Brief answers to your questions about common infectious diseases

at-a-glance information on twenty-one childhood diseases. The chart shows:

• how each disease or infection is spread
• time between exposure and sickness
• early signs of illness
• how long the child will be infectious
• for how long children should be excluded from kindergarten, day care or school

The conditions covered are:

• campylobacter
• chicken pox
• conjunctivitis (viral or bacterial)
• cryptosporidium and giardia
• gastroenteritis (viral)
• glandular fever
• hand, foot and mouth disease
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B (immunisation usually prevents this illness)
• impetigo (school sores)
• influenza
  
• measles (immunisation usually prevents this illness)
• meningitis(meningococcal)
• mumps (immunisation usually prevents this illness)
• ringworm
• rubella (immunisation usually prevents this illness)
• salmonella
• scabies
• streptococcal sore throat
• slapped cheek (human parvovirus infection)
• whooping cough - (immunisation usually prevents this illness)

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Where to go for more information

On this website www.kidshealth.org.nz

Chicken pox 

Conjunctivitis (viral or bacterial) 

Gastroenteritis (viral)

Immunisation: Complete fact sheet
Immunisation: Flu
Immunisation: Measles
Immunisation: Whooping cough

Impetigo (school sores)
Flu (influenza)
Measles

Meningitis (meningococcal disease)
Pandemic flu

Sore throat (including streptococcal sore throat) 

Whooping cough

 

HealthEd (Ministry of Health) www.healthed.govt.nz
Additional information on:
Campylobacter

Cryptosporidium

Giardia
Hepatitis A, B and C
Hepatitis B fact sheet for peole living with chronic infection
Hepatitis B/Mate Ate Kakā in te reo Māori
Hepatitis B information for pregnant women
Hepatitis B personal record - a record of the immunisation schedule for babies exposed to the hepatitis B virus for health professionals to update at each immunisation visit
Rubella and women
Scabies

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This fact sheet was endorsed by PSNZ - 01/08/2011

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