Communicable Diseases

1. HEALTH PROMOTION OCTOBER 26, 2015 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS MODE OF TRANSMISSION VACCINE SCHEDULE
PERTUSIS
(whooping cough)
- severe coughing spells thus
the whooping sound.
7 to10 days
- runny nose
- nasal congestion
- low grade fever
- red watery eye
after 2 weeks:
- vomiting
- red and blue face
- high pitch whoop
- extreme fatigue
Droplet
- coughing and sneezing
DTaP
- 2, 4, 6 months
Booster
4 to 6 years old
11 to 12 years old
POLIO
- viral, causes paralysis
- polio virus
Non- paralytic
- fever
- sore throat
- headache
- vomiting
- fatigue
- back and neck pain/ stiffness
- arms and legs pain/ stiffness
Paralytic
- loss of reflexes
- severe muscle ache / weakness
- loose and floppy (flaccid
paralysis)
Fecal- oral route
coughing and sneezing
IPV
2, 4, 6 and 18 months
4 years old

2. HEALTH PROMOTION OCTOBER 26, 2015 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS MODE OF TRANSMISSION VACCINE SCHEDULE
DIPTHERIA - fever and chills
- nasal discharge
- sore throat
- difficulty breathing
- Respiratory Droplet
- rarely, skin lesions
- clothes that are contaminated (if
there are discharge from the
lesions of an infected person)
- contact with object (toy) that
has been contaminated by
bacteria caused by
DIPHTHERIA
DTaP - IPV
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Acellular Pertusis
Polio
2, 4, 6 months
1, 2, 4- 6 years
booster every 10 years
Tetanus - Headache
- muscle spasms
- trouble swallowing
- jerking or starring (seizure)
- muscle stiffens all over body
- SPREAD: found in soil, dust,
manure, enters the body
through breaks in the skin (
usually cuts)
- or by contaminated object
same as DIPHTHERIA
Measles - high fever
- red watery eyes
- cough
- runny nose (coryza)
- tiny white spots inside the
mouth
- skin rash
Airborne
- coughing
- sneezing
vaccine live virus
MMR:
12 - 15 months of age 1ST DOSE
4 - 6 of age 2ND DOSE
adult- BOOSTER
MUMPS - fever
- muscle pain
- headache
- malaise
- painful swelling (one or both
parotid glands)
Respiratory droplets / direct
contact with infected person
- symptoms occur 16 to 18 days
after exposure
- resolve 7 to 10 days
MMR
1st dose 12 t o15 mons
2nd dose - 4 to 6 years
booster dose - adult
MMR- measles, mumps, rubella

3. HEALTH PROMOTION OCTOBER 26, 2015 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS MODE OF TRANSMISSION VACCINE SCHEDULE
Hepatitis A - fatigue
- low grade fever
- nausea and vomiting
- abdominal pain
- clay- coloured bowel
- loss of appetite
- dark urine
- joint pain
- jaundice
Fecal- oral route
- food and water contaminated
with virus
Avaxim 2 dose
Twinrix vaccine
Hepatitis B same with Hep A - Sexually Transmitted
- needle sharing
- mother to child
Recombivax 3 dose
0 , 1, 6 months
booster at 5 years
Twinrix vaccine
Rubella - fever
- headache
- runny nose
- rash (red, fine) most of the body
- swollen glands
- low grade fever
- RARE: bruising, inflammation of
eyes, muscle and joint pain
- air and close contact
Congenital Rubella Syndrome-
mild in mom but severe in baby
MMR
1st dose 12 months
2nd dose - 4 to 6 years
MMR- measles, mumps, rubella

4. HEALTH PROMOTION OCTOBER 26, 2015 COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS MODE OF TRANSMISSION VACCINE SCHEDULE
Chicken Pox
caused by varicella virus
- fever
- feeling ill
- itchy rash with fluid filled blister
- headache
- new blister continue to develop
for up to 1 week
- stomach ache
Airborne At 12 months
4 to 6 years if received at 12
months
Influenza - diarrhea
- sweating
- fever
- body ache
- fatigue
- malaise
- headache
Airborne/ contact flu vaccine every year
Pneumonia - fever
- fluid in lungs
- productive cough
- chest pain
- SOB
- vomiting and diarrhea
Viral
bacteria
airborne
Pneumococcal (conjugate)
It is for people who are at risk
Children: 3 doses
2, 4 and 12 months
Meningitis - fever
- headache (progressively worse)
- nausea and vomiting
- chills
- malaise
- rash
- droplet
- direct contact
Meningococcal
C- conjugate
Quadrivalent conjugate
1st dose- 2 months
2nd dose- 12 months
3rd dose- 6th grade