Shingles is a very painful localised rash. The infection occurs only in people who have had chickenpox in the past and is a reactivation of the dormant varicella (chicken pox) virus. It is unknown why the virus reactivates in some individuals and not others.
The disease is primarily seen in the elderly, but occasionally occurs in younger individuals.
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- Chickenpox
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- Composting Toilets
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- Gonorrhoea
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- Hepatitis B
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- Influenza
- Keeping Poultry
- Malaria
- Measles - Normal Human Immunoglobulin
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- Norovirus Gastroenteritis
- Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine (Panvax®).
- Pregnancy and Food Safety
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- Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus
- Rota virus
- Salt
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- Tamiflu (Oseltamivir)- Consumer Information
- Treated effluent
- Tuberculosis
- Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE)
- Asbestos
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- Campylobacter
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- Drinking Water Private
- Fact sheets
- Food Temperatures - Danger Zone
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- Food Businesses - Duties
- Food safety in hot weather
- Food Stalls - Fetes and Fundraising
- Greywater use
- Hepatitis A
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- Home Isolation
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
- Listeria and Listeriosis
- Measles
- Measles: Information for Contacts
- Meningococcal
- Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE)
- Outbreak Management - Information for bus drivers
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pregnancy and Immunisation
- Psittacosis
- Rifampicin
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- Shiga toxing-producing E. coli (STEC) & Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Synthetic Cannabis
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- Treated timber ash
- Typhoid
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