Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
- The 2014 Ebola outbreak and its significance to New Zealand
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance Significant Increases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
- Haemophilus influenzae type b
- Acute Rheumatic Fever
- Chikungunya Fever
- Dengue Fever
- Hepatitis not otherwise specified
- Measles
- Yersiniosis
Significant Decreases in 12-Monthly Notification Rate
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Malaria
- Meningococcal Disease
- Pertussis
- Salmonellosis
- Toxic Shellfish Poisoning
- VTEC Infections
3. Other Surveillance Reports
- Enhanced surveillance of syphilis – key findings from 2013
4. Outbreak Surveillance
- 223 outbreaks (2179 cases) notified in this quarter
- 145 final reports (1964 cases); 78 interim reports (215 cases)
- 13.5 cases per outbreak on average
- 24 hospitalisations, 4 deaths
5. Outbreak Case Reports
- Typhoid cases in an extended family investigated
6. Laboratory Surveillance
- Norovirus surveillance and the GII.4 Sydney_2012 variant
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