NZPHSR - June 2013

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Contents & Highlights

1.    Editorial
  • Summary of notifiable disease surveillance trends for 2012

2.    Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Dengue Fever
  • Gastroenteritis (acute)
  • Leptospirosis
  • Pertussis
  • Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
  • Typhoid Fever
  • VTEC Infections

Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Giardiasis
  • Hepatitis A
  • Measles
  • Meningococcal Disease
  • Rubella

3.    Other Surveillance Reports
  •  A review of recent pertussis epidemics
  •  High influenza hospitalisations lead to extension of free influenza vaccination to young children

4.    Outbreak Surveillance
  •  196 outbreaks (1694 cases) notified in this quarter
  •  124 ‘final’ reports (1380 cases); 72 ‘interim’ reports (314 cases)
  •  111.1 cases per outbreak on average
  •  7 hospitalisations, one death

5.    Outbreak Case Reports
  •   Auckland measles outbreak 2011/12

6.    Laboratory Surveillance
  •   Laboratory-based legionellosis surveillance, 2012

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Report:

NZPHSR - June 2013

Tables:

NZPHSR June 2013: Supplementary material

NZPHSR June 2013: References
 

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NZPHSR June 2013: Supplementary material

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