Communicable Disease Control

Communicable diseases include a long list of infections that can be prevented and controlled through:

• Education
• Immunization
• Harm reduction measures
• Investigation and follow-up of communicable diseases that are reportable to Public Health 
• Using data on disease transmission to inform Public Health’s response
• Putting protective measures in place such as masking and isolation
• Continuous monitoring (surveillance) of communicable diseases so that measures can be put in place before people get sick or an outbreak happens

Are you a health-care provider and need more information on managing a reportable communicable disease?

• Refer to the Saskatchewan Communicable Disease Control Manual. 

• Visit SHA Public Health for reporting forms, clinical tools and fact sheets on animal exposures, blood and body fluid exposures, syphilis, monkeypox and more.