Communicable Disease Information for Visitors

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.

Futher information on these infections can be obtained from your local Centre for Disease Control or contact us. You can also read further Northern Territory  Centre for Disease Control fact sheets.


TitlePublishedDescription
Australian Bat Lyssavirus (Adobe PDF document - 86KB)Aug 2005Lysaavirus precautions
Dengue mosquitoes in Groote Eylandt (Adobe PDF document - 44KB)Dec 2006Mosquito incursion, information about dengue
Leptospirosis (Adobe PDF document - 52KB)May 2004Leptospirosis
Listeriosis (Adobe PDF document - 115KB)Jan 2002listeriosis, food borne disease
Malaria (Adobe PDF document - 58KB)Jun 2004Malaria prevention
Melioidosis (Adobe PDF document - 45KB)May 2007Melioidosis, tropoical infection, preventive measures
Mosquitoes (Adobe PDF document - 101KB)May 2006Mosquito borne disease, preventive measures
Murray Valley encephalitis (Adobe PDF document - 77KB)Apr 2004Murray Valley encephalitis, mosquito borne disease
Ross River virus (Adobe PDF document - 54KB)May 2007Mosquito borne disease
Scrub Typhus (Adobe PDF document - 53KB)Mar 2008Scrub typhus, tropical infection
Vibrio bacterial disease (Adobe PDF document - 36KB)Oct 2006Vibrio bacterial infection, skin infection, septicaemia