Communicable disease control

Preface

Historial considerations

Control Measures

The legal basic of communicable disease control

Administrative agencies

Role of the public health nurse

Care of a communicable disease case at home

Epidemilogical investigation of communicable disease

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever

The dysenteries

Hookworm

Food poisonings and infections

Trichinosis

Undulant fever

Diphtheria

Hemolytic streptococcal infections

Wooping cough

Measles

Chickenpox, german measles, and mumps

Smallpox

Anterior poliomyelitis

Meningococcus meningitis

Encephalitis

Pneumonia

Influenza

Common colds

Tuberculosis

Gonorrhea and syphilis

Rabies

Tetanus

Impetigo, pediculosis, scabies, and ringworm

Diseases spread through arthropods

Diseases spread through arthropods cont.: plague, tularemia, rocky mountain spotted ferver, typhus, and yellow

Index

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