NZPHSR - September 2014

1. Editorial

• The ESR Epidemiological Skills Development Programme – five years on

2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate

• Acute Rheumatic Fever
• Campylobacteriosis
• Chikungunya Fever
• Dengue Fever
• Giardiasis
• Hepatitis C
• Measles
• Zika Fever

Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate

• Cryptosporidiosis
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
• Typhoid Fever
• VTEC Infections

3. Other Surveillance Reports

• Arbovirus outbreaks in the Pacific region
• Sexually transmitted infections – key findings from the 2013 surveillance report

4. Outbreak Surveillance

• 179 outbreaks (2117 cases) notified in this quarter
• 116 final reports (1562 cases); 63 interim reports (555 cases)
• 13.5 cases per outbreak on average
• 44 hospitalisations, 3 deaths

5. Outbreak Case Reports

• No reports this quarter

6. Laboratory Surveillance

• Laboratory-based legionellosis surveillance for 2013 – a summary