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Resources

Infectious Disease
PIDAC Best Practice Guidelines
Best Practices Document for the Management of Clostridium difficile in all Health Care Settings (PIDAC)
Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning (PIDAC)
Routine Practices - All Health Care Settings - Fact Sheet (English)
Routine Practices and Additional Precautions - All Health Care Settings - Document (French)
Routine Practices and Additional Precautions - All Health Care Settings - Document (English)

Cover Your Coughs and Sneezes
Cover your Cough Poster (Cree)
Cover your Cough Poster (English)
Cover your Cough Poster (French)
Cover your Cough Poster (Ojibway)
Cover your Cough Poster (Ojicree)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Caught You Chart for Day Cares (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Caught You Chart for Schools (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Fact Sheet for Parents at Day Cares or Schools (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Fact Sheet for Teachers (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Poster for Day Cares (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - B&W Poster for Schools (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Caught You Chart for Day Cares (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Caught You Chart for Schools (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Fact Sheet for Day Care Staff (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Fact Sheet for Teachers (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Poster for Day Cares (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Colour Poster for Schools (English)
Cover your Coughs & Sneezes - Day Care Staff Fact Sheet
Parent Fact Sheet - Hand washing and covering coughs and sneezes

West Nile Virus Reports
2005 West Nile Virus Final Report
2006 West Nile Virus Final Report
2007 West Nile Virus Final Report
2008 West Nile Virus Final Report
2009 West Nile Virus Final Report
2010 West Nile Virus Final Report

Clean Hands
Germ Busters! Follow Up Activities for Day Cares
Germ Busters! Follow Up Activities for Schools - Clean Hands & Cover Your Coughs
Hand Hygiene 101 - FAQ for schools
Hand Hygiene Best Practices for HCP - PIDAC (English)
Hand Hygiene Poster for HCP (English)
Hand Hygiene Poster for HCP (French)
Hand Sanitizer Poster (French)
Hand Sanitzer Poster (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - After Playing Outside (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - After Playing With Pets (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - After Sneezing and Coughing (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - After Touching Money (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - After Using Bathroom (English)
Hand Washing Colouring Page - Before Eating (English)
Hand Washing Poster (Cree)
Hand Washing Poster (English)
Hand Washing Poster (French)
Hand Washing Poster (Ojibway)
Hand Washing Poster (Ojicree)
Where Have Your Hands Been - Cutting Meat Poster (English)
Where Have Your Hands Been - Sneezing Poster (Poster)
Where Have Your Hands Been - Toilet Paper Poster (English)

Ticks and Lyme Disease
Insect Repellant Factsheet (Health Canada)
Lyme Disease - Public Brochure (English)
Lyme Disease - Removing a Tick Poster (English)

Outbreak in Institutions
Outbreaks - NP Swab Instructional Poster (English)
Outbreaks - Outbreak CAUTION Poster for LTC - Yellow (English)
Outbreaks - Outbreak DECLARED Poster for LTC - Red (English)
Outbreaks - Outbreak GUIDELINES Poster for LTC (English)

Beauty and Body Art

Animal Bites and Rabies
Rabies Information for Victims and Pet Owners - Booklet (English)

Information for Health Care Provider
Canadian Family Physician: Lyme Disease, a zoonotic disease of increasing importance to Canadians
Diptheria Antitoxin - Fact Sheet for Physicians (English)
Diptheria Antitoxin - Fact Sheet for Physicians (French)
Diptheria Antitoxin - Memo from MOHLTC (English)
Diptheria Antitoxin - Monograph (English)
Diptheria Antitoxin - Special Access Future Use Form (English)
Hepatitis C Info for Health Care Professionals
Lyme Disease - Fact Sheet for HCP - MOHLTC (English)
Lyme Disease - Fact Sheet for HCP - MOHLTC (French)
Lyme Disease - Laboratory Diagnosis Guidelines from Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network
Measles Activity in Ontario and Worldwide - Fact Sheet - MOHLTC (June, 2011)
Measles Activity in Ontario and Worldwide - Memo - MOHLTC (June, 2011)
Pertussis - Diagnostic Test Recommendations for HCP
Pertussis - Fact Sheet
Pneumococcal High Risk Immunization Program - Memo for HCP (English)
Tuberculosis - Quick Reference Guide for HCP (English)

Flu
Flu - Prevention Poster for Tweens & Teens (English)
Flu - Measuring a Child’s Temperature and Breathing (English)
Flu - Prevention Checklist (English)
Flu - Prevention Checklist (French)
Flu - Prevention Poster for Children (English)
Flu - What to do for Fever in Children (English)
Flu - When to Seek Medical Care for a Child from 6 to 16 Years Old (English)
Flu - When to Seek Medical Care for an Infant or Young Child Under 6 Years (English)
Flu - When Your Child is Sick with Uncomplicated Influenza (English)
Pandemic Plan - Thunder Bay and Area - 2009 (English)

TB

Fact Sheets
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Antibiotic Resistant Organisms
Blastomycosis
Campylobacter
Chickenpox
Cryptosporidiosis
E. Coli 0157:H7
Flu - Differences between Influenza and Stomach Flu (English)
Group A Streptococcal Infection
Guidelines for Handling Blood or Body Fluids
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
Impetigo
Legionellosis
Listeria
Lyme Disease
Measles
Meningitis - Bacterial
Meningitis - Viral
Meningitis - Viral vs Bacterial
Mononucleosis, Infectious
Mumps
Norovirus
Pertussis
Pneumococcal High Risk Immunization Program - Fact Sheet for HCP (English)
Rabies
Reportable Disease List - Updated in 2010 (English)
Rubella
Salmonella
Scabies
Shingles
Strep Throat
Streptococcus Pneumoniae (Pneumococcus)
Summary of the iGAS Outbreak - October 2008 to September 2009
Yersiniosis


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