Communicable Diseases Report, NSW, March and April 2011.

Communicable diseases report, NSW, March and April 2010.

Communicable Diseases Report, NSW, March and April 2008.

Enteric infections Outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease Ten outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease, thought to be due to the consumption of microbiologically contaminated food and which affected a total of 103 people, were reported in March and April 2012. This is higher than the number of outbreaks reported for the same period last year. These outbreaks were linked to restaurants (n1⁄4 6), ...

Communicable Diseases Report, NSW, September and October 2011.

Enteric infections Outbreaks of foodborne disease Four outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease thought to be due to consumption of contaminated food were reported in September and October 2011. Three outbreaks were identified through complaints to the NSW Food Authority (NSWFA) and one outbreak was identified through reports to a public health unit. For one of these outbreaks, the causative organ...

OzFoodNet quarterly report, 1 April to 30 June 2011.

Impact of faxed health alerts on the preparedness of general practitioners during communicable disease outbreaks.

The NSW Department of Health (NSW Health) faxed health alerts to general medical practitioners during measles outbreaks in March and May 2006. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of randomly selected general practitioners (GPs) (1 per medical practice) in New South Wales to investigate the effectiveness of faxing health alerts to GPs during a communicable disease outbreak. Fax transmissio...