Listeriosis is an infection caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.
People at high risk include pregnant women, unborn babies, newborn babies, elderly people and people with weakened immune systems. For further information see information sheet below.
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- Anthrax
- Avoiding heat-related stress
- Bushfire Smoke
- Chickenpox
- Ciprofloxacin
- Cryptosporidiosis
- DES (Diethylstilboestrol)
- Eating Food Outdoors
- Flooding
- Food - BBQ with friends
- Food - Lunch from Home
- Food Handler Responsibilities
- Food Stalls - BBQ (commercial)
- Gonorrhoea
- Head Lice
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis E
- Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
- Malaria
- Medicines and Poisons
- Mould
- Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE)
- Outbreak Management - Information for bus drivers
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pregnancy and Immunisation
- Psittacosis
- Rifampicin
- Salmonella
- Scabies
- Smoke-free Outdoor Eating and Drinking Areas
- Tamiflu (Oseltamivir)- Consumer Information
- Treated effluent
- Tuberculosis
- Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE)
- Asbestos
- Bushfire air quality
- Campylobacter
- Chlamydia
- Composting Toilets
- Death Cap Mushrooms
- Drinking Water Private
- Fact sheets
- Food Temperatures - Danger Zone
- Food - Cooking for a Party
- Food Businesses - Duties
- Food safety in hot weather
- Food Stalls - Fetes and Fundraising
- Greywater use
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis C
- Influenza
- Keeping Poultry
- Measles
- Meningococcal
- Mumps
- Norovirus Gastroenteritis
- Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine (Panvax®).
- Pregnancy and Food Safety
- Provision of toilets at public events
- Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus
- Rota virus
- Salt
- Shiga toxing-producing E. coli (STEC) & Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Synthetic Cannabis
- Tanning Units in Solaria
- Treated timber ash
- Typhoid
- Viral Gastroenteritis
