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Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial The emergence of Swine Influenza
A (H1N1)
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate- Dengue
Fever
- Giardiasis
- Hazardous
Substances Injury
- Hepatitis A
- Lead
Absorption
- Legionellosis
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Measles
- Pertussis
- Rickettsial
Disease
- VTEC Infections
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate- Campylobacteriosis
- Chemical
Poisoning from the Environment
- Haemophilus influenzae type b
- Hepatitis B
- Mumps
3. Other Surveillance Reports
- Annual survey of MRSA, August 2008
4. Outbreak Surveillance- 99
outbreaks (783cases) notified in this quarter
- 44
‘final’ reports (500cases); 55 ‘interim’
reports (283cases)
- 11.4
cases per outbreak on average
- 3
hospitalisations, 1 death
5. Outbreak Case Reports- An outbreak of Clostridium gastroenteritis at a
boarding house
- An outbreak of norovirus
at a large New Zealand
university
- Typhoid fever outbreak in Porirua
6. Laboratory
Surveillance- Influenza in New Zealand in 2008
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