Communicable Diseases Report, NSW, January and February 2012.

Communicable diseases report, NSW, January and February 2011.

For updated information, including data and facts on specific diseases, visit (http://www.health.nsw.gov.au) and click on Infectious Diseases.

Communicable diseases report, NSW, September and October 2012.

For updated information, including data and facts on specific diseases, visit www.health.nsw.gov.au and click on Public Health and then Infectious Diseases. The communicable diseases site is available at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/publichealth/infectious/index.asp.

Year in review: health protection in NSW, 2012.

Health protection involves the prevention and control of threats to health from communicable diseases and the environment. In New South Wales (NSW) in 2012 these functions were carried out by a range of groups, among them Health Protection NSW’s Communicable Diseases and Environmental Health Branches, the NSW Ministry of Health’s Population and Public Health Division, Public HealthUnits, clinic...

Supplementary report: Surveillance of adverse events following immunisation among children aged less than seven years in Australia, 1 January to 30 June 2011.

Communicable diseases report, NSW, November and December 2012.

Enteric infections Outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease There were seven outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease reported in NSW in the period (two in November and five in December), affecting at least 59 people. All outbreaks were thought to be caused by contaminated restaurant food. Of the seven outbreaks, three were reported directly to Public Health Units by the treating doctors or aff...