Infectious Diseases of Christmas Island

Infectious Diseases of Christmas Island is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which summarize the status of individual infectious diseases, in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature.

Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease name. Each chapter is divided into four sections:

1. Descriptive epidemiology
2. Summary of clinical features
3. Status of the disease in Christmas Island
4. References

A chapter outlining the routine vaccination schedule of Christmas Island follows the diseases chapters.

There are 354 generic infectious diseases in the world today. 183 of these are endemic, or potentially endemic, to Christmas Island. A number of other diseases are not relevant to Christmas Island and have not been included in this book.

In addition to endemic diseases, all published data regarding imported diseases and infection among expatriates from Christmas Island are included.