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PH: DCP - Common Diseases and Health Issues

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The Communicable Disease Control (CD) section provides education, follow-up, and control duties for all communicable diseases not covered by the other DCP sections. Diseases we get asked about frequently: Common Childhood Illnesses Animal Bites and Rabies Rabies in San Mateo County, how to report a bite or exposure, how to answer questions about your risk, information about treatment and vaccination Food Poisoning and Enteric (Food or Water Borne) Illnesses Where to report a suspected illness or outbreak, common causes of gastrointestinal infection, useful weblinks Hepatitis C Lice Treatment, prevention, and frequently asked questions Lyme Disease and Ticks Lyme disease in San Mateo County, prevention, testing, treatment, other tick borne diseases Meningitis   Alphabetical List of Communicable Diseases Amoebiasis Anthrax Botulism Campylobacter Chlamydia Cholera Coccidioimycosis (Valley Fever) Coxsackie Virus (See Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease) Cryptosporidiosis Chicken Pox/Shingles Cyclospora Dengue Diphtheria E. coli 0157:H7 Fifth Disease Flu (see Influenza) Giardia Gonorrhea Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Hantavirus Helicobacter Pylori Hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E) Herpes Influenza Legionellosis Lice Listeriosis Lyme Disease Measles Mumps Norwalk Virus Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Pinworms Psittacosis Raccoon Roundworm Rabies Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Rotavirus Salmonella Scabies Shigella Staphylococcus Aureus Streptococcus Syphilis Tetanus Trichomonas Tuberculosis Typhoid Fever Vibrio Parahemolyticus Yersinia For more information on Viral and Rickettsial Diseases