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Cholera
Cholera
Statutory notification
Cholera infection is a notifiable infectious disease in Western Australia.
Alert:
cases must be reported urgently by telephone to the
Public Health Unit (Healthy WA)
within a few hours of first suspicion of diagnosis.
See
notifiable communicable disease case definitions (Word 1.29MB)
.
Notifications should be made using the communicable disease notification form for
metropolitan residents (PDF 209KB)
or
regional residents (PDF 209KB)
.
For notification of regional residents see contact details of
Public Health Unit
.
See also description of
Statutory medical notifications
for WA Department of Health.
Public health action
Important information
Infectious agent
:
Vibrio cholerae
serotype O1 or O139
Transmission
: Faecal-oral, food-borne and water-borne.
Incubation period
: few hours to 5days (usually 2 to 3 days).
Infectious period
: While symptomatic and usually a few days post recovery. In some cases, carrier state may persist for several months. Use contact transmission- based precautions for hospitalised and institutionalised patients.
Case exclusion
: Until asymptomatic, including normal stools, for 24 hours. If patient works in health-care, aged-care, child-care or is a food handler or attends child-care exclude until asymptomatic, including normal stools, for 48 hours, then clearance with two consecutive negative faecal specimens collected at least 24 hours apart. See Department of Health
OD0490/14 – Public Health follow-up of sporadic enteric disease notification (external site)
.
Contact exclusion:
Do not exclude.
Treatment:
Oral rehydration and as recommended by the doctor.
Immunisation
: Cholera vaccination is available in Australia but is not completely effective. Refer to a doctor of your choice about protection against cholera before travelling overseas. See
Australian Immunisation Handbook, Department of Health – Cholera (external site)
.
Guidelines
OD 0490/14 Public Health Follow-up of Sporadic Enteric Notifications (PDF 1MB)
Guidelines for Exclusion of People with Enteric Diseases and their Contacts
Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners
Australian Immunisation Handbook, Department of Health – Cholera (external site)
Notifiable disease data and reports
Notifiable infectious disease dashboard
General infectious disease reports
Produced by
Public Health
Related links
Consumer information – Cholera (Healthy WA)