[PDF] Top 20 Communicable Diseases, NSW: December 2000

... Syphilis is an acute and chronic sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by infection with Treponema Pallidum. It is characterised by skin and mucous membrane lesions in the acute infectious phase (early syphilis) and ... See full document

... in NSW, the expected seasonal increase in notifications of patients diagnosed with invasive pneumococcal disease and meningococcal disease occurred (Table 8, Figure ...of communicable diseases ... See full document

... the Communicable Diseases Branch of the NSW Depart- ment of Health is investigating an apparent outbreak of psittacosis in the Blue Mountains, west of ... See full document

... the Communicable Diseases Branch received a report that two flight attendants were admitted to a Sydney hospital with the diagnosis of possible ...in December and ...the NSW Department of ... See full document

... To the end of September 2001, 287 new diagnoses of HIV infection, 16 cases of AIDS and nine deaths from AIDS were reported to the NSW Department of Health (Table 2). In July 2001, the system for surveillance for ... See full document

... in NSW began on 17 March ...the Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Department of Health, had been notified of 56 people who have been investigated for possible ... See full document

... in NSW have been asked to forward isolates to The Children’s Hospital at ...the Communicable Diseases Branch of the NSW Department of Health for collation and ... See full document

... the NSW Department of Health’s Communicable Diseases Unit (CDU) of the death of a 21-year-old South Western Sydney man from suspected invasive meningococcal ... See full document

... Notifications of communicable diseases received by NSW Health through to February 2002 are shown in Table 5 and Figure 2. Notably, there have been relatively few reports of Ross River virus infection ... See full document

... In NSW, between 10 and 28 patients have been reported with listeriosis each year since 1991. When illness does occur, it can either present as gastroenteritis, or invasive disease (including septicaemia or ... See full document

... In 2000, doctors reported that 81 people in NSW had syphilis that was acquired within the previous year; 66 people were reported in 2001, and 126 people were reported in ... See full document

... The number of notifications of gonorrhoea and chlamydia continues to rise. Notifications of gonorrhoea have reached their highest levels since laboratory reporting began in 1991. Notifications of chlamydia have reached ... See full document

... NSW Health initiated an investigation into the cause of the outbreak. Active case finding was initiated: public health units solicited reports of additional suspected cases from local emergency departments, ... See full document

... Twenty-two cases of meningococcal disease were notified in NSW in July and August 2012 (14 in July and eight in August), an increase from 15 notified in the same period in 2011. The age of the case-patients ranged ... See full document

... In total in this period 411 cases of gonorrhoea were notified to NSW Health (247 in May and 164 in June), compared to 383 (180 in May and 203 in June) in 2010. The majority of notifications continue to occur in ... See full document

... A free vaccine for serogroup C meningococcal disease is available for infants at 12 months of age. 1 Consequently, serogroup C disease is now seen mainly in adults and in unimmunised children. In NSW this year, ... See full document

... There has been an increase in the number of cases of gonorrhoea notified in NSW, with 970 reported in the first quarter of 2012 compared to 608 in the same period in 2011. The increase in gonorrhoea notifications ... See full document

... There were nine measles notifications in NSW in the second quarter of 2013, a decline from the 22 reported in the same period in 2012. Cases ranged in age from 1 to 35 years. Five of the cases acquired the ... See full document

... stage NSW is planning to use alternative forms of surveillance including varicella-related hospitalisations and deaths and periodic ...serosurveys. NSW will also investigate the feasibility of sentinel ... See full document

... A free vaccine is recommended for infants at 2, 4 and 6 months of age although the first dose can be given as early as 6 weeks of age. A booster dose is recommended at 4 years but this can be given as early as 3 years ... See full document