[PDF] Top 20 Infectious diseases, NSW: July 1999

... Approximately 30 nasopharyngeal swabs were received by South East Area Laboratory Service (SEALS) and the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research Westmead (ICPMR) each week from 15 to 20 general ... See full document

... AIDS/Infectious Diseases and Legal and Pharmaceutical Services Branches of the NSW Department of Health; and the NSW Medical ...the NSW Medical Board and referral of the matter to the ... See full document

... AIDS/ Infectious Disease ...AIDS/ Infectious Diseases, Environmental Health, and Food Branches, and as such mirrors the structures of many public health units, enabling a strong alliance between ... See full document

... in NSW In New South Wales, communicable disease prevention is primarily coordinated through the 17 Area Health Services’ Public Health Units ...the NSW Department of Health’s Health Protection Branch ... See full document

... Although a widespread epidemic did not develop following the outbreak of influenza in Hong Kong at the end of 1997, the emergence of the H5N1 subtype and its potential to re-emerge and cause pandemic disease have ... See full document

... February, NSW Health received a report of a case of active tuberculosis in a health care worker (HCW) who had cared for patients in several Sydney ...potentially infectious for two months prior to diagnosis ... See full document

... some diseases compared to tourist ...amongst NSW residents increased by 50% from ...notified diseases attributable to overseas travel and to assess the quality of data on travel-associated risk ... See full document

... brings NSW into line with other States, will provide a better understanding of their epidemiology in NSW, and will inform the planning of evaluation of prevention and treatment ... See full document

... 6387 NSW residents (or 24 per cent of all deaths that year), including several health workers, one of whom was the principal medical officer with the Education Department, Dr ... See full document

... However, it is quite possible that such avian strains may occasionally infect humans (who act as a dead-end host), but be identified only because of the intense surveillance for emerging[r] ... See full document

... On December 17, 1997 the NSW Department of Health issued a media release warning the public to cook pipis well before eating them. When subsequent cases reported incubation periods as sh[r] ... See full document

... A teleconference of an expert group, including the local public health staff, microbiologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, was immediately convened. It was decided to confer closely with the university ... See full document

... To ensure that there is not an increase in the incidence of MDR TB and to promote best-practice management of MDR TB, an expert panel will be convened to review all cases identified as MDR TB in NSW. The panel ... See full document

... A national team including staff from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, the State Departments of Health, and the Master of Applied Epidemiology Program of the National Centre for Epidemiology and ... See full document

... 6387 NSW residents (or 24 per cent of all deaths that year), including several health workers, one of whom was the principal medical officer with the Education Department, Dr ... See full document

... In 1991 the Infectious Diseases Section of the Epidemiology Branch completed a review of the NSW refugee medical screening program.. The review examined inter alia the need for screening[r] ... See full document

... all active cases have treatment initiated and ceased by, and be discharged from medical care by, a specialist physician at the nearest chest clinic; the NSW Infectious Diseases Surveilla[r] ... See full document

... in NSW received through to the end of July and August ...communicable diseases for the period 1999 through to the end of ...in July may have been delayed resulting in some ... See full document

... One household reported secondary transmission. A cohort study was initiated using an online survey. Two stool specimens were collected and one was positive for nor- ovirus. No one food item showed evidence of being the ... See full document

... In NSW, there are still around 400 people who are newly-infected with HIV each year. To the end of March 2001, the cumulative number of HIV diagnoses in NSW was 12,207. The total number of HIV diagnoses for ... See full document