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- Tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis (TB) is spread when a person with an active infection coughs, laughs, sings or sneezes.
- Travel immunisation
If you are travelling overseas, check with your doctor well in advance to find out what immunisations you need.
- Erythema nodosum
Erythema nodosum appears as red tender lumps, most commonly on the shins.
- Respiratory physician
A respiratory physician (respiratory and sleep medicine specialist) specialises in diagnosing, treating and preventing conditions and diseases affecting the respiratory system.
- Pleurisy
Treating any infection of the upper respiratory tract quickly will reduce the risk of developing pleurisy.
- Eyes - optic neuritis
Optic neuritis is inflammation of the optic nerve that causes blurred, grey and dim vision.
- Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
Once a person with leprosy begins treatment they quickly become non-infectious.
- Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is not a cancer or any other sort of malignant tumour.
- Amyloidosis
A person with amyloidosis produces aggregates of insoluble protein that cannot be eliminated from the body.
- Antimicrobial resistant bacteria
Careful prescribing of antibiotics will minimise the emergence of antimicrobial resistant strains of bacteria.