Communicable Diseases

Juta’s Communicable Diseases offers students and health practitioners an up-to-date and concise guide on communicable diseases, including COVID-19, monkey pox and the zika virus. The content includes legal and ethical obligations; myths and misunderstandings about communicable diseases; immunisation and vaccination, reporting of communicable diseases; epidemiology; response to outbreaks, and prevention and management of communicable diseases. The diseases are systematically grouped by their main means of transmission.