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