Communicable Disease Division, SEB

	The Epidemiology Section maintains a comprehensive network of communicable disease notifications, conducts detailed epidemiological investigations on disease outbreaks and institutes appropriate control measures and health advice to stop disease propagation.
	The Communicable Disease Surveillance Section serves to collect, collate, analyse and disseminate surveillance data on communicable diseases. It conducts surveillance on statutorily notifiable diseases and other infections of public health significance and coordinates the operation of a sentinel surveillance system that monitors the trends of influenza-like-illness, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, antibiotic resistance, acute conjunctivitis and acute diarrhoeal diseases in the community.
	Please visit the Centre for Health Protection website for more information on communicable diseases, including related health topics, statistics, recommendations, guidelines, publications, etc.