Epi-Insight, Volume 18, 2017

Volume 18, Issue 10, November 2017

This issue contains:

• Cluster of cases of multi-drug resistant Shigella notified amongst MSM, June 2017
• New report on high level azithromycin resistant gonorrhoea published by HPSC
• Measles in the Dublin and Meath areas
• Plague outbreak in Madagascar
• National Public Health Emergency Team convened to mount response to CPE/CRE
• European HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week 2017
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2017

This issue contains:

• HSE recommends antiretroviral therapy for all people living with HIV attending HIV services in Ireland
• HIV in Ireland 2016
• The European men who have sex with men internet survey, 2017 – evidence to inform policy and action
• ECDC Fellowship Programme for EPIET and EUPHEM paths – Call for applications
• National guidelines for prevention and control of gonorrhoea and for minimising the impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
• HSE urges healthcare workers to get flu vaccine as uptake rates at highest levels ever
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2017

This issue contains:

• Major campaign launched to support parents to make the right decision about HPV vaccination
• National mumps study in universities/colleges – invitation to participate
• Hajj 2017 - Communicable Disease Public Health Risks
• Epidemiology of invasive group B streptococcal infection in infants in Ireland: 2012 – 2017
• Launch of national hepatitis C screening guideline
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2017

This issue contains:

• Borrelia burgdorferi diagnostic methods in Ireland: microbiology laboratory survey (2016)
• Influenza A(H7N9) (bird flu) in China: ECDC Updated risk assessment: July 2017
• Invasive pneumococcal disease and the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in Ireland, 2008-2016
• Cholera Outbreak in Yemen
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2017

This issue contains:

• World Hepatitis Day 2017 – 28th July - Eliminate hepatitis
• National hepatitis C screening guidelines developed
• The National Hepatitis C Treatment Programme
• Increase in Meningococcal C disease highlights importance of infant and school booster vaccines
• Legionnaires’ disease prevention and control – checklists for owners and managers of leisure centres and hotels
• Second Antimicrobial Stewardship Study Day #amsinsight2017
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 6, June 2017

This issue contains:

• Former HPSC director awarded IDSI President’s Award
• Request for final 2016/2017 influenza vaccine uptake figures from long term care facilities
• 15th Annual Gay Health Forum takes place in June
• Irish AIDS day, 2017
• HPSC website now mobile friendly
• Hepatitis A outbreaks in men who have sex with men in Europe
• 2017 Safe Patient Care Course to focus on non infection control specialists
• Outbreak of Salmonellosis in North Dublin
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2017

This issue contains:

• Measles outbreaks in Ireland and other countries - both children and adults at risk
• Lyme Disease Awareness Week
• Increase in Legionnaires’ disease among European travellers returning from Dubai
• HSE holds national flu conference
• Findings of study into healthcare associated infections and antibiotic use published
• Club Health Conference 2017
• ESCAIDE 2017 – Call for abstracts now open
• World Hand Hygiene Day reminds us that good hand hygiene saves lives
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2017

This issue contains:

• Update on the CIDR HIV/STI module project
• Mycobacterium chimaera in patients with a history of open heart surgery
• Sexually transmitted infections and HIV in Ireland, 2016: provisional data
• European Immunization Week
• Consultation document - National Hepatitis C Screening Guidelines
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2017

This issue contains:

• Hepatitis A outbreaks in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Europe 
• Point Prevalence Survey of Hospital Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Ireland 2017
• Increase in gonorrhoea cases in the South-East: heterosexual transmission a feature
• 2017 National Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Conference
• World TB day 2017 - unite to end TB
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2017

This issue contains:

• Recent outbreak of ciprofloxacin-resistant shigella among MSM in Dublin
• Bacterial meningitis guidelines revised and updated
• Surveillance of CRE in Ireland
• Zika virus infection update
• Latest HPSC reports

Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2017

This issue contains:

• Influenza vaccine uptake among healthcare workers – interim survey results mid season 2016-2017
• New childhood immunisation schedule
• Zika virus infection update
• Spotlight on Avian Influenza
• Norovirus upsurge
• CJD reporting and management protocol consultation process
• HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme Conference, December 2016
• Latest HPSC reports

Last updated: 2 November 2017