Disease Risk Summary

The general level of community sanitation and public health awareness is low throughout Indonesia.

	Insect-borne illness: considered an important cause of disease in this area.
	Encephalitis (Japanese type) - occurs (risk may extend to resort areas, including those on Bali)
	Filariasis - prevalent in rural areas
	Malaria - common
	Typhus (mite-borne) - occurs in deforested areas Food-borne and water-borne illness: these diseases are common.
	Cholera - occurs
	Dysentery (amoebic and bacillary) - occurs
	Fasciolopsiasis (giant intestinal fluke) - occurs
	Hepatitis - occurs
	Melioidosis - occurs
	Schistosomiasis - occurs on the island of Sulawesi

Other hazards:
Diseases such as measles and diphtheria are commonly reported, and cases of polio still occur regularly.

	Influenza risk extends throughout the year.
	Rabies - occurs on Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra and Sulawesi
	Trachoma - occurs