We work to detect, investigate, control and prevent infectious diseases and disease outbreaks. Communicable Disease staff collects, analyzes and reports infectious disease data, and provides public health consultation and education for health care providers and the public.
Diseases
Colorado Department of Public health and Environment - Communicable Disease Manual
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- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Animal bites
- Anthrax
- Arboviral diseases
B
- Bird Flu (H5N1)
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
C
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candida auris
- Chancroid
- Chikungunya
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- CJD & other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)
- Colorado tick fever
- COVID-19
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Prion Diseases (known currently on the CD website as TSE’s)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
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E
G
H
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M
O
- Outbreaks: incl foodborne, water, person-to-person, healthcare settings
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Q
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- Rabies, human (suspected)
- About other spotted fever rickettsiosis
- Rubella (acute infection, congenital)
S
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox (Variola virus or Orthopox virus)
- Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin-resistant
- Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
- Syphilis
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- Tetanus
- Tick-borne relapsing fever
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever