NZPHSR - June 2011

Thursday 7th July 2022

Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
Summary of notifiable disease surveillance trends for 2010

2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Giardiasis
  • Legionellosis
  • Salmonellosis
  • VTEC infections
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Campylobacterosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Dengue fever
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b
  • Invasive pneumococcal disease
  • Lead absorption
  • Measles
  • Meningococcal disease
  • Mumps
  • Pertussis
  • Toxic shellfish poisoning
3. Other Surveillance Reports
  • Annual survey of MRSA, 2010
4. Outbreak Surveillance
  • 134 outbreaks (900 cases) notified in this quarter
  • 77 ‘final’ reports (701 cases); 57 ‘interim’ reports (199 cases)
  • 9.1 cases per outbreak on average
  • 11 hospitalisations, one death
5. Outbreak Case Reports
  • A norovirus outbreak – occult virus shedding in a pre-symptomatic food handler
6. Laboratory Surveillance
  • Laboratory-based surveillance of listeriosis, 2010
  • Laboratory-based surveillance of legionellosis, 2010

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