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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- Covering your cough and sneezes.
- Seeing a doctor or staying home when you feel sick.
- Not sharing eating utensils, drinking glasses, towels or other personal items.
- 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.
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
- Noroviruses
- 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