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Contents & Highlights

1. Editorial
Changes to the New Zealand Drinking-Water Standards
2. Notifiable Disease Surveillance
Significant Increases in Notification Rate
- Pertussis
- Salmonellosis
- Cryptosporidiosis
Significant Decreases in Notification Rate
- Measles
- Meningococcal Disease
- Gastroenteritis
- Giardiasis
- Leptospirosis
- Yersiniosis
3. Other Surveillance Reports
- Notifiable disease data available at www.nzpho.org.nz
- Second-hand tobacco smoke exposure in bars
- Antituberculosis-drug resistance
4. Outbreak Surveillance
- 86 outbreaks (325 cases) notified in this quarter
- 45 ‘final’ reports (201 cases); 41 ‘interim’ reports (124 cases)
- 4.5 cases per outbreak on average
- 14 hospitalisations, 1 death
5. Outbreak Case Reports
- Influenza A outbreak at a resthome
- Norovirus outbreak at a resthome
- Yersinia outbreak at a camp
6. Pathogen Surveillance
- 18 E. coli O157:H7 cases laboratory confirmed
- 6 norovirus outbreaks reported
- 27 Legionella cases laboratory identified
- 491 isolations of influenza virus were reported
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