NZPHSR - September 2013

Wednesday 22nd March 2023

Contents & Highlights

1.    Editorial
  •  Can the National Health IT Plan transform public health surveillance in New Zealand?
2.    Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  •  Cryptosporidiosis
  •  Dengue Fever
  •  Pertussis
  •  Salmonellosis
  •  Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
  •  Typhoid Fever
  •  VTEC Infections
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
  •  Acute Rheumatic Fever
  •  Campylobacteriosis
  •  Giardiasis
  •  Legionellosis
  •  Measles
  •  Rubella
  •  Yersiniosis
3.    Other Surveillance Reports
  •  Annual survey of MRSA, 2012
4.    Outbreak Surveillance
  •  157 outbreaks (1084 cases) notified in this quarter
  •  104 final reports (865 cases); 53 interim reports (219 cases)
  •  8.3 cases per outbreak on average
  •  21 hospitalisations, 2 deaths
5.    Outbreak Case Reports
  •  Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) in Waikato and Auckland
  •  Increased cryptosporidiosis in Greater Wellington, autumn 2013
6.    Laboratory Surveillance
  •  Influenza surveillance, 2012

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NZPHSR - September 2013

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NZPHSR September 2013: Mycology Jul-Dec 2012
 

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