NZPHSR - December 2011

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
SHIVERS: The Southern Hemisphere Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Research and Surveillance project

2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Hepatitis C
  • Legionellosis
  • Measles
  • Rubella
  • Yersiniosis
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Hepatitis A
  • Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
  • Paratyphoid Fever
  • Pertussis
  • Shigellosis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
  • Invasive pneumococcal disease, 2010
4. Outbreak Surveillance
  • 162 outbreaks (1280 cases) notified in this quarter
  • 85 ‘final’ reports (1016 cases); 77 ‘interim’ reports (264 cases)
  • 12.0 cases per outbreak on average
  • 10 hospitalisations, no deaths
5. Outbreak Case Reports
  • West Coast pertussis outbreak
  • Wellington Campylobacter outbreak – liver delivers nasty surprise
  • Meningococcal C disease in Northland, 2011
6. Laboratory Surveillance
  • New Zealand norovirus outbreaks and the emergence of new variant and recombinant strains

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