Epi-Insight, Volume 18, 2017
Volume 18, Issue 12, December 2017
This issue contains:
- World AIDS Day 2017
 - PERTINENT - measuring the burden of Pertussis/ Whooping Cough in hospitalised infants
 - Measles outbreak 2017
 - AMS InSight Monthly Antimicrobial Stewardship Webinar
 - New School of Public Health launched
 - Call for applicants – EUPHEM Fellowship position, Ireland
 - Latest HPSC reports
 
Volume 18, Issue 11, 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
 
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
 
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
 
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: 01 December 2017


