To help make your stay in the Northern Territory a safe and pleasant one these fact sheets provide information about diseases that are you may encounter while here.
Further information on these infections can be obtained from your local Centre for Disease Control or contact us. For additional Northern Territory communicable disease information go to Centre for Disease Control fact sheets.
| Title | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Bat Lyssavirus (Adobe PDF document - 937KB) | RTF (48KB) | Jan 2010 | Lyssavirus precautions |
| Leptospirosis (Adobe PDF document - 329KB) | RTF (39KB) | Dec 2012 | Leptospirosis |
| Jun 2012 | Listeriosis, food borne disease | |
| Malaria (Adobe PDF document - 284KB) | RTF (47KB) | Dec 2012 | Malaria prevention |
| Melioidosis (Adobe PDF document - 324KB) | RTF (48KB) | Jan 2012 | Melioidosis, tropical infection, preventive measures |
| Mosquitoes (Adobe PDF document - 299KB) | RTF (608KB) | Jan 2013 | Mosquito borne disease, preventive measures |
| Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) (Adobe PDF document - 268KB) | RTF (25KB) | Jan 2013 | Murray Valley encephalitis, mosquito borne disease |
| Ross River virus (Adobe PDF document - 280KB) | RTF (27KB) | Jan 2013 | Mosquito borne disease |
| Scrub Typhus (Adobe PDF document - 54KB) | RTF (46KB) | Dec 2012 | Scrub typhus, tropical infection |
| Vibrio bacterial disease (Adobe PDF document - 311KB) | RTF (27KB) | Dec 2012 | Vibrio bacterial infection, skin infection, septicaemia |
Information about insect pest periods for biting insects including biting midges and salt marsh mosquitoes is available from the Medical entomology section of Centre for Disease Control.
