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

... Rates of influenza-like illness showed an increase in the last week of June, reaching a level similar to that for the same time in 1998 (Figure 4). Reports were received weekly from 31 general practitioners (GPs) ... 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

... Notification data for confirmed cases (and probable cases for hepatitis A) of each of the seven diseases with an onset date from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2011 were exported from NCIMS and reviewed for quality ... 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

... mid- June, 1315 patients were hospitalised with ...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 ... See full document

... The following data are reported by the National Centre for Disease Control. Influenza-like illness activity reported by sentinel general practices under the ASPREN scheme (Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network) ... 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

... mid- June, 1315 patients were hospitalised with ...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 ... See full document

... Influenza activity reached a plateau in early September. In August, influenza A declined sharply, and influenza B emerged as the dominant strain. However, this activity has since declined. While the influenza season ... See full document

... Winter’s arrival brought marked declines in the incidence of several notifiable diseases, including arboviral infections (perhaps due to fewer exposures to infected mosquitos) and salmonellosis (Figure 5 and Table ... 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 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

... Syphilis is a highly infectious sexually transmitted disease that is spread through vaginal, anal or oral sex through skin-to-skin contact. Syphilis is highly contagious during the primary and secondary stages ... See full document

... South Western Sydney Public Health Unit reported a cluster of five cases of hepatitis A among children attending a primary school in Sydney in June. Hepatitis A is caused by the hepatitis A virus, which is easily ... See full document

... Tuberculin skin test results from the case’s closest contacts (i.e. those in his household) suggested that he was unlikely to have been very infectious while at school or in flight. However, the area health ... See full document