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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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