Communicable diseases in tsunami-affected areas

WHO continues to track the evolving infectious disease situation, sound the alarm when needed, share expertise, and mount the kind of response needed to protect populations from the consequences of epidemics, whatever and wherever might be their origin.

• Field manual
• Toolkit for tsunami affected areas: early warning system
• Toolkit for tsunami affected areas: risks and interventions
• Flooding and communicable diseases fact sheet

Cholera, typhoid and diarrhoeal diseases

• Joint WHO/UNICEF statement for cholera vaccine use in tsunami-affected areas
• Joint WHO/UNICEF statement for typhoid vaccine use in tsunami-affected areas
• Cholera and typhoid fever in tsunami affected areas of South Asia
• Cholera outbreak: assessing the outbreak response and improving preparedness
• First steps for managing an outbreak of acute diarrhoea
• Acute diarrhoeal diseases in complex emergencies: critical steps
• Potential use of oral cholera vaccines in emergency situations
• Cholera general health information
• Fact sheet: cholera

Haemorrhagic fevers

• Dengue in the tsunami stricken countries in Asia
• Fact sheet: Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever
• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)
• Ebola haemorrhagic fever
• Lassa fever

Japanese encephalitis

• Japanese encephalitis in the tsunami stricken countries in Asia

Malaria

• Roll Back Malaria epidemics and emergencies
• RBM and complex emergencies

Measles

• WHO guidelines for epidemic preparedness and response to measles outbreaks

Respiratory infections

• Acute respiratory infections in children

Tuberculosis

• Strategic approach to maintain appropriate tuberculosis control activities in countries affected by the Asian tsunami disaster

Country-specific information for communicable disease in emergencies

• Indonesia
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