NZPHSR - December 2006
Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Contents & Highlights
1. EditorialPandemic influenza preparedness
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in Notification Rate
· Campylobacteriosis
· Salmonellosis
· Shigellosis
· Hepatitis A
· Yersiniosis
· Acute Rheumatic Fever
· Hepatitis B
Significant Decreases in Notification Rate
· Meningococcal Disease
· Pertussis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
· Antituberculosis-drug resistance
· STEC/VTEC infection in New Zealand - an update
· A near fatal case of nitrite food poisoning
4. Outbreak Surveillance
104 outbreaks (756 cases) notified in this quarter
71 ‘final’ reports (669 cases); 33 ‘interim’ reports (87 cases), 9.4 cases per outbreak on average, 49 hospitalisations, 1 death
5. Outbreak Case Reports
· Foodborne illness associated with chicken curry eaten at a staff club
6. Pathogen Surveillance
· 279 human and 578 non-human Salmonella isolates confirmed
· 12 E. coli O157:H7 cases laboratory confirmed
· 13 Legionella cases laboratory identified, no deaths
· 585 influenza viruses reported
· 559 respiratory syncytial virus cases reported
· 66 adenoviruses reported
· 40 enteroviruses reported
· 3 isolates of Listeria monocytogenes from human cases referred
· 3 isolates of Corynebacterium diphtheriae received
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