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Other diseases of public health importanceBuruli ulcerDiarrhoea in childrenless than 5 years ofageViral hepatitisPneumonia in childrenless than 5 years ofageOnchocerciasisUrinaryschistosomiasisTrachomaYawsAny person who develops a firm, painless, often itchy swelling or an extensive swellingwith/without colour change over the affected skin in a place where a lot of residentssuffer from big sores with undermined edges and “dirty cotton wool-like” centreon different parts of the body in endemic areasAny child that has passed 3 or more watery stools within the past dayAny person with fever and yellow discoloration of the eyesAny child less than 5 years of age with cough and fast breathing or difficulty breathingSkin rash and nodulesAny person passing blood during or after urinationAny person with repeated discharge and redness of the eyes or the in-turning of theeyelids or the eyelashes rubbing on the eyes.Any person with small swellings on the skin looking like a boil which when peeled off,results in bleeding of the area instead of discharge of pus.126Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Ghana