NZPHSR - September 2015

1. Editorial

• Complications to care in an Ebola Treatment Unit, Sierra Leone, 2015

2. Notifiable disease surveillance

Significant increases in 12-monthly notification rate

• Chikungunya fever
• Gastroenteritis (acute)
• Legionellosis
• Leptospirosis
• Toxic shellfish poisoning
• VTEC infection
• Yersiniosis

Significant decreases in 12-monthly notification rate

• Acute rheumatic fever
• Campylobacteriosis
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Giardiasis
• Hepatitis A
• Measles
• Pertussis
• Zika fever

3. Other surveillance reports

• No reports this quarter

4. Outbreak surveillance

• 118 outbreaks (1098 cases) notified in this quarter
• 62 final reports (677 cases); 56 interim reports (421 cases)
• 10.9 cases per outbreak on average
• 13 hospitalisations, 3 deaths

5. Outbreak case reports

• “P soup anyone?”—A foodborne outbreak of methamphetamine poisoning
• Outbreak of Salmonella Thompson linked to Northland food premises

6. Laboratory surveillance

• Influenza surveillance, 2014