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Environmental health
Infectious disease control
The law requires doctors to notify us, and the Health Authority, of cases of certain infectious diseases. To protect public health, we Investigate cases of food related infectious disease :
- To find, if possible, the cause
- Minimise the risk of others becoming infected
- See if individual cases are linked as part of a larger outbreak
- Investigate with commercial food producers any links with cases or outbreaks
For more information, please contact Environmental Support or visit the Department of Health's website, the links below will take you straight to relevant sections :
- Department
of Health website homepage (www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm)
- Department of Health website : Communicable diseases (www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Communicablediseases/index.htm)
- Department of Health website : Public health (www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/index.htm)
- Department of Health website : Health care (www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/index.htm)
- Department of Health website : Social care (www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/index.htm)
