Communicable Diseases

The Communicable Disease Control Team works to prevent spread of disease in our community through early detection, surveillance, investigation and control of diseases that are transmitted from person-to-person or contracted from animals (zoonotic diseases), insects (vector-borne diseases) or the environment.

What we do:

• Monitor and respond to notifiable conditions reported to Queensland Health under the Public Health Act 2005,including:

• • • Vaccine preventable diseases such as meningococcal disease, measles, polio and whooping cough
    • Other communicable diseases such as legionellosis, typhoid and hepatitis A
    • Mosquito-borne diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever and Zika virus
    • Diseases transmitted to humans from animals including Q Fever, leptospirosis and Hendra virus
    • Potential exposures to Australian bat lyssavirus and rabies
    • Food and water borne disease outbreaks, such as salmonellosis, norovirus and cryptosporidiosis

• Provide outbreak management advice and support to residential aged and disability care facilities e.g. influenza, COVID-19 and gastroenteritis
• Provide expert advice to health professionals, governments, industry and community
• Develop, implement and partner with others on projects and research to prevent and control communicable diseases
• Human quarantine at Brisbane International Airport and Port of Brisbane
• Joint program with local government and other agencies on mosquito control and mosquito borne diseases.’

• Resources for Aged Care Facilities
  • Disease prevention in residential care facilities
• Resources for Child care Facilities
  • Disease prevention in education and care services
  • Gastro in Children QH Emergency Department fact sheet
  • QG Gastroenteritis
  • Influenza in education and care services

• General Resources
  • Australian Bat Lyssavirus
  • Diseases and infection prevention
  • COVID-19 in Queensland
  • COVID-19 traffic light advice
• Video Library