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Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
Summary of notifiable diseases surveillance for 2007
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate- Mumps
- Acute
Rheumatic Fever
- Listeriosis
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- VTEC
Infections
- Giardiasis
- Lead
Absorption
- Brucellosis
- Hydatid
Disease
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate- Meningococcal
Disease
- Pertussis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Gastroenteritis
- Typhoid
- Chemical
Poisoning
- Hepatitis
A
- Rickettsial
Disease
3. Other Surveillance Reports- Annual survey of MRSA, August 2007
4. Outbreak Surveillance- 74 outbreaks (847cases) notified in this quarter
- 40 ‘final’ reports
(444cases); 34‘interim’ reports (403 cases)
- 11.1 cases per outbreak on average
- 2 hospitalisations, no
deaths
5.
Outbreak Case Reports- Measles outbreak in Auckland, December 2007
- Norovirus outbreak associated with a
commercial indoor playground in the Bay of Plenty Region
6. Pathogen Surveillance- 488 human and 249 non-human Salmonella isolates confirmed
- 48 isolates of E. coli O157:H7
laboratory confirmed
- 27 confirmed norovirus outbreaks
- 14 Legionella cases laboratory
identified
- 4 influenza viruses reported
- 3 respiratory syncytial virus cases reported
- 139 adenoviruses reported
- 29 enteroviruses reported
- 7 isolates of Listeria monocytogenes referred
- 29 isolates of Corynebacterium diphtheriae received
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