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Communicable Diseases

A communicable disease is an illness that can be transmitted from person to person, animal to animal or animal to person. Communicable diseases include the common cold and flu.

You can protect yourself and others from getting sick by:

Washing your hands often. Washing with soap and water for at least 20 seconds is ideal.

Wash Your Hands Poster for Kids (PDF)

Wash Your Hands Poster for Adults (PDF)

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Wash Your Hands Poster for Kids (Observant) (PDF)

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Wash Your Hands Poster for Adults (Observant) (PDF)

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Covering your cough and sneezes.

Cover Your Cough Poster (PDF)

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Seeing a doctor or staying home when you feel sick.

Not sharing eating utensils, drinking glasses, towels or other personal items.

Cleaning and disinfecting toys.

Clean Toys To Keep Your Children Healthy (PDF)

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Staying up to date on your vaccines.

Avoiding sexual contact if you have diarrhea.

Using condoms as often as possible during vaginal, anal and oral sex

Learn more about how you can stop germs from spreading by checking out specific disease information below.

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Information on Specific Diseases

Amebiasis

Anaplasmosis

Anthrax

Arboviral Infections

Babesiosis

Botulism

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Chancroid

Chikungunya

Chlamydia

Cholera

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Dengue Fever

E. Coli

Ehrlichiosis

Encephalitis

Food Poisoning

Giardiasis

Glanders

Gonorrhea

Haemophilus Influenzae

Hantavirus

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Hepatitis

HIV/AIDS

Influenza (Flu)

Legionnaires' Disease

Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis

Lyme Disease

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus

Malaria

Measles

Melioidosis

Meningitis, Bacterial

Meningococcal Disease, Invasive

Monkeypox

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

Mumps

Norovirus

Novel Coronavirus

Paratyphoid Fever

Plague

Pneumococcal Disease

Q Fever

Rabies (Animal and Human)

Respiratory Syncytial Virus

Rickettsialpox

Ricin Poisoning

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Rotavirus

Rubella (German Measles)

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Smallpox

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Poisoning

Streptococcal Infections (Invasive Group A Strep)

Streptococcal Infections (Invasive Group B Strep)
Syphilis

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Trachoma

Trichinosis

Tuberculosis

Typhoid Fever

Vibrio Parahaemolyticus

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

West Nile Virus

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)

Yellow Fever

Yersiniosis

Zika Virus

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Immunization Clinics

Vaccinations for School and Day Care