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Welcome to the HPSC website
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases.
HPSC is part of the Health Service Executive and works in partnership with health service providers and sister organisations in Ireland and around the world, to provide the best possible information for the control and prevention of infectious diseases. HPSC strives to protect and improve the health of the Irish population by providing timely information and independent advice, and by carrying out disease surveillance, epidemiological investigation and related research and training.
Epi-Insight
Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2012
This issue contains:
- World Hand Hygiene Day - Impact of glove use on hand hygiene
- Study to look at hospital acquired infections and antimicrobial use takes place in May
- Epidemiology of invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease in Ireland, 2004-2011
- World Malaria Day April 25th 2012 - reminder to intending travellers
- Avian influenza outbreak in Cork
- HPSC doctor is new IMO president
- Call for papers on molecular epidemiology of human pathogens and on epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Europe
- Latest HPSC reports
Topics A-Z
Antimicrobial Resistance
Antibiotics, CRE, MRSA, Point Prevalence Survey, see more topics...
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Measles, Mumps, Seasonal Influenza, Whooping Cough (Pertussis), see more topics...
Vectorborne Diseases
Lyme Disease, Malaria, West Nile Virus, see more topics...
What’s New?
- Investigation of an increase in the incidence of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in 2009 and 2010: Final Report of National Narcolepsy Study Steering Committee
- Flu (influenza): Information for patients/residents and visitors of healthcare facilities
- Seasonal influenza guidance for residential care facilities
- Case Definitions for Notifiable Diseases
- Guidelines for the Early Clinical and Public Health Management of Bacterial Meningitis (including Meningococcal Disease)
- Report on the epidemiology of TB in Ireland, 2009
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