Vector Control

A vector is any organism (insects or rodents) that can transmit a disease from one organism to another.
Monitoring, identification, evaluation and prevention of vectors.
The function refers to:

• The elimination or correction of conditions promoting the habits and breeding habits of vectors.

• Developing awareness in communities of zoonotic diseases by means of vectors and the control thereof through education and training.

Notifiable Medical Conditions

• Acute rheumatic fever or rheumatic fever
• Anthrax
• Brucellosis
• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Encephalitis (including encephalomyelitis)
• Food poisoning (outbreaks of more than four persons)
• Haemorrhagic fevers of Africa (Congo fever, Dengue fever, Ebola fever, Lassa fever, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever)
• Lead poisoning
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measels
• Meningococcal infections
• Paratyphoid fever
• Plague
• Poisoning from any agricultural or stock remedy registered in terms of the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies

and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947)

• Poliomyelitis
• Rabies (Specify whether human case or human contact)
• Rheumatic heart disease (first diagnosis only)
• Smallpox and any smallpox-like disease, excluding chicken pox
• Tetanus
• Trachoma
• Tuberculosis

• pulmonary and other forms, except cases diagnosed solely on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms;
• a strongly positive reaction after a tuberculin test in children under 5 years of age (Gr. III or IV Heaf or 14 mm
induration or more Mantoux)

• Typhoid fever
• Typhus fever (epidemic lice typhus fever, endemic ratflea typhus fever)
• Viral hepatitis A, B, non-A, non –B and undifferentiated
• Yellow fever