NZPHSR - December 2014

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