Disease Prevention
In the Disease Prevention category, there are HealthLinkBC File topics about animal and insect borne diseases, food and water borne diseases, infectious diseases, diseases related to travel, as well as immunizations available in British Columbia to protect against disease.
Please note that all HealthLinkBC File PDFs are two pages and under 1 megabyte each.
Animal-Borne and Insect-Borne Disease
- Campylobacter Infection (#58)
- Giardia Infection (#10)
- Health advice for travellers (#41a)
- Malaria prevention (#41f)
- Q fever (#79)
- Rabies (#07a)
- Scabies (#09)
- Swimmer's Itch (#52)
- Tick bites and disease (#01)
- Toxoplasmosis (#43)
- West Nile virus (#88)
- Yersiniosis (#77)
Food-Borne and Water-Borne Disease
- E. coli Infection (#02)
- Campylobacter Infection (#58)
- Disinfecting Drinking Water (#49b)
- Giardia Infection (#10)
- Listeriosis (#75)
- Norovirus (#87)
- Salmonellosis (#17)
- Toxoplasmosis (#43)
- Traveller's Diarrhea (#41e)
- Typhoid Vaccine (#41j)
- Yersiniosis (#77)
General Disease
- Cervicitis (#08f)
- Bacterial vaginosis (BV) (#08g)
- Campylobacter Infection (#58)
- Chlamydia (#08l)
- Facts About Chickenpox (#44a)
- Genital herpes (#08d)
- Giardia Infection (#10)
- Gonorrhea (#08a)
- Health advice for travellers (#41a)
- Hepatitis A vaccine (#33)
- Hepatitis B immune globulin (#25b)
- Hepatitis B infant vaccine (#25c)
- Hepatitis B Vaccine (#25a)
- Hepatitis C virus (#40a)
- HIV and HIV tests (#08m)
- HIV testing in pregnancy (#38a)
- HTLV-1 Virus (#34)
- Impetigo (#81)
- Measles (#14b)
- Molluscum contagiosum (#08i)
- Mumps (#14c)
- Norovirus (#87)
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) (#15c)
- Pinkeye (conjunctivitis) (#82)
- Polio Vaccine (IPV) (#13)
- Pubic lice (#08h)
- Q fever (#79)
- Roseola (#83)
- Rubella (#14d)
- Scabies (#09)
- Shigellosis (#80)
- Shingles vaccine (#111)
- Syphilis (#08e)
- Toxic Shock Syndrome (#04)
- Trichomoniasis (#08p)
- Tuberculosis (TB) (#51a)
- Tuberculosis (TB) skin test (#51d)
- Urethritis (#08b)
- Vaginal yeast infection (#08j)
- West Nile virus (#88)
- Health advice for travellers (#41a)
- Hepatitis A vaccine (#33)
- Hepatitis B immune globulin (#25b)
- Hepatitis B infant vaccine (#25c)
- Hepatitis B Vaccine (#25a)
- Immune Globulin (#63)
- Polio Vaccine (IPV) (#13)
- Rabies (#07a)
- Reye syndrome (#84)
- Rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix®) (#104a)
- Shingles vaccine (#111)
- Travelling with children (#41d)
- Typhoid Vaccine (#41j)
- Yellow Fever Vaccine (#41i)
Influenza (Flu)
- Health advice for travellers (#41a)
- Hepatitis A vaccine (#33)
- Hepatitis B immune globulin (#25b)
- Hepatitis B infant vaccine (#25c)
- Hepatitis B Vaccine (#25a)
- HIV and HIV tests (#08m)
- Malaria prevention (#41f)
- The Pregnant Traveller (#41g)
- Traveller's Diarrhea (#41e)
- Travelling with children (#41d)
- Typhoid Vaccine (#41j)
- Yellow Fever Vaccine (#41i)